February 2012 - Riskope

Our judgements are clouded by prejudices and misconceptions.

Our judgements are clouded by prejudices and misconceptions. Indeed, we humans often assess the probability of an event by asking ourselves if there are “cognitively available” examples. Those are readily available through memory as Kahneman (Nobel Prize in Economics) and Tversky demonstrated in a series of papers published between 1971 and 1984. Among those papers the most popular is likely the one entitled “Prospect Theory”,1979 quoted at page 212 in our book. Availability heuristic The phenomenon highlighted by Kahneman and…

Strategy, Leadership and Success in Personal and Organizational Development

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Riskope’s active service in the international Risk and Crisis Management arena with Strategy, Leadership and Success in Personal and Organizational Development. Although we exist, in one form or another, since 1988, our companies drastically evolved from Engineering to Risk and Crisis Management with the acquisition of a series of very unusual jobs in the early 90s. It appears now that those jobs were the tipping point of our evolution, as summarized by the following images.…

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