Managing Risk and Performance A Guide for Government Decision Makers

“Doing nothing rarely prevents a risk from materializing. Stanton andWebster have given government managers a clear, comprehensive, actionable road map they can use to organize and manage to anticipate and mitigate risks that put their missions in jeopardy. Managing Risk and Performance: A Guide for Government Decision Makers takes lessons learned from effective risk management in the private and public sectors and gives executives a blueprint for using those lessons to bring about a new focus on enterprise risk management in federal agencies and other organizations. The benefits of this approach are immense. The consequences of inaction are potentially catastrophic.”