Bet on You: How to Win with Risk

Bet on You: How to Win with Risk

Bet on You: How to Win with Risk

Bet on You: How to Win with Risk

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Overview

Build the risk-taking skills that will lead you to a life of fulfillment:

Discover the formula for success that will supercharge your decision-making confidence and transform even the most risk-averse mindset.

In Bet on You, Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch reveal hard-earned, real-world insights that will help you realize your potential by enacting risk in ways most meaningful to you.

The author’s risk-taking guidance has been embraced by the world’s best businesses – Google, Boston Scientific, FedEx, and Oracle. Their insights are the secret sauce behind any transformative journey to a success-filled life.

With clear, actionable steps, this book:

  • Enlightens readers with a new perspective on how risk really works and clears up common misconceptions about risk, such as it being the opposite of reward.
  • Empowers professionals of all types with guidance on how to start practicing new habits right away to build their risk-taking muscle.
  • Shows how to weave a safety net to mitigate the downside of risks.
  • Offers effective strategies for managing risk-killing emotions: fear and failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400229796
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Publication date: 04/19/2022
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,080,461
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Angie Morgan is a dynamic, creative thought leader who knows how to unlock the capability and talent of leaders at all levels. After serving as a Marine Corps officer, Angie led in pharmaceutical sales for Merck and Pfizer. She’s been a special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on diversity initiatives, and engages routinely with boards and organizations to drive performance. Angie is an avid athlete — her competitive nature and motivation to win shows up in every client engagement as she inspires others to be their best. She is the cofounder of Lead Star, a leadership development firm that works with Fortune 500 companies, small- and mid-sized businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and academic institutions, and the co-author (with Courtney Lynch) of Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics For Women.


Courtney Lynch is a big-picture thinker whose life’s mission is to support individuals as they become the best leaders they know. She spent nine years as a Marine Corps officer, managed a top-notch software sales team, and practiced at one of the nation’s leading law firms. Courtney also served as an elected official and as Chief Operating Officer at a rapidly scaling U.K.-based technology company. Clients turn to Courtney for her in-the-moment advice and breadth of real-world experiences. She is the cofounder of Lead Star, a leadership development firm that works with Fortune 500 companies, small- and mid-sized businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and academic institutions, and the co-author (with Courtney Lynch) of Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics For Women.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Section 1 Rethinking Risk

Chapter 1 Reimagining Risk 3

Chapter 2 If Not You, Then Who? 25

Section 2 Defining Success and Doing the Work

Chapter 3 Dream It. Own It. Take It 51

Chapter 4 Choose Your Guides 71

Chapter 5 Do the Work 95

Section 3 Staying Safe and Recognizing Wins

Chapter 6 Weave Your Safety Net 121

Chapter 7 Realize When You're Winning 141

Chapter 8 Plan for the Fears and Fails 163

Conclusion 187

Notes 191

Index 195

About the Authors 203

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