{"id":9021,"date":"2017-05-09T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnews.hult.edu\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:20:01","slug":"faculty-publications-risky-strategy-jamie-macalister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/faculty-publications-risky-strategy-jamie-macalister\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty publications: Risky Strategy by Jamie MacAlister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s faculty\u00a0publications spotlight is on <em><strong>Risky Strategy: Understanding Risk to Improve Strategic Decisions<\/strong><\/em> by Hult faculty Jamie MacAlister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A note from the\u00a0author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is risk? Is it danger or opportunity? Can it be managed or is it something to be embraced and tried?<\/p>\n<p>When companies are developing their business strategies, risk is often mentioned in passing (and frequently misunderstood), but is rarely seen as a core part of the strategic decision-making process. This can lead to unforeseen complications, as strategy is all about making decisions that concern an uncertain future, and therefore risk should play a significant role in this process.<\/p>\n<p>The handling or understanding of risk is often delegated to specialists and much of what is written about risk is, due to its complexity, inaccessible to the majority of senior managers involved in making strategic decisions. This book aims to make the consideration of risk more accessible and understandable to those managers and, in doing so, develop a common language and understanding for talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>Based on research carried out by Ashridge Exective Education at Hult International Business School, as well as case studies \u2028of the strategic decision-making process in action, Jamie MacAlister takes the subject out of the textbooks and brings it engagingly to life. Drawing on lessons from Apple to Procter &amp; Gamble, from Napoleon to Nelson, from Roger Federer to Sir Alex Ferguson, \u2028and from Pythagorus to Sir Isaac Newton, Risky Strategy provides a new and dynamic perspective on risk, demonstrating how and when to take the right risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endorsements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn important and stimulating read for any leader faced with deciding between a bold \u201cknock-out\u201d strategy and one that is less risky but less ambitious\u201d\u00a0<strong>Vic Luck, Director of The Foundation for Leadership through Sport; previously Senior Partner, PwC Consulting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA breath of fresh air\u2026 combines analogies from the Graeco-Roman world and military strategy, along with real-life examples from Jamie\u2019s time as a management consultant and senior manager, to re-interpret a variety of strategic tools\u201d\u00a0<strong>Kriss Akabusi MBE, former Olympic athlete and CEO of The Akabusi Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMacAlister has a knack for making you think differently about risk and encouraging an open mind \u2026 a risk, some may say, in itself\u201d\u00a0<strong>Martin Reason, Chief Executive, Melton Mowbray Building Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn incredibly helpful and clear book that gets to the heart of what strategy is all about\u201d\u00a0<strong>Francesca Brosan, Chairman and Co-Founder of digital agency, Omobono<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Book excerpt: From <em>Chapter 6 &#8211; Tigers and informal risk<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying: \u201cDon\u2019t let the noise of others\u2019 opinions drown out your inner voice.\u00a0 Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tiger in us struggles with the idea that you need to minimise risk. Why?\u00a0 Because it represents the land of opportunity much more so than the land of danger and harm.\u00a0 And the problem is that as soon as you stop to analyse or calculate, you are already engaged in minimising risk, whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tigers are intuitive instead of calculating. There tends to be more emotion involved in the decision making process.\u00a0 Passion has a role to play.\u00a0 There is a belief that the best way to learn about risk is not to study it or analyse it but to take it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some colleagues at Ashridge recently ran an expo trip to Silicon Valley, for a client group from the Middle East.\u00a0 The aim was to learn something about how Silicon Valley championed innovation. They visited companies like Google, Apple, Tesla, Intel, Facebook, HP and Singularity University. One thing they discovered was that risk taking is a basic part of the culture, and failure is the seal of approval. It\u2019s almost a rite of initiation into the community.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t failed, you haven\u2019t tried hard enough.\u00a0 The skill is not in avoiding failure, but in failing fast and learning fast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perfection is not as highly valued by tigers as it is by elephants . As an executive coach, this is probably the single biggest issue that my clients wrestle with as they take on more senior roles and strive to become better leaders.\u00a0 Often, they have achieved higher levels of responsibility by being technically good at what they do. They have experienced working in well-defined processes where attention to detail is important \u2013 where being right more often than wrong has been part of the basis of recognition.\u00a0 They have built on the experience of their education, where getting the most right answers or putting together the most rationally persuasive arguments has been the basis for the best grades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the things we look at as coaches is the underlying motivation that drives the behaviour of the people we are coaching.\u00a0 The point is that these are often sources of stress, and can therefore undermine the resilience of leaders. \u2026.For prospective leaders who are likely to experience increased levels of uncertainty in making decisions, letting go of their \u2018Be perfect\u2019 drivers is often one of the biggest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>..What\u2019s interesting when we talk to tigers about drivers is that they do appear to have a driver \u2013 the \u2018Hurry up\u2019 driver.\u00a0\u00a0 Tigers move quickly, because they move intuitively;\u00a0 they are not waiting for more evidence to support their case.\u00a0 So they are particularly useful where speed is critical. \u2026.This has proven to be largely the case in Silicon Valley \u2026Tigers seem to try, fail, try, fail, try, fail, try and succeed, but once they do succeed, they appear to emerge ahead of other animal life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speed is often important in combat.\u00a0 Military strategy is primarily focused on beating the enemy\u2026..\u00a0 Being faster to act not only increases the chances of seizing important strategic assets, but also creates increased uncertainty, and thence fear, on the part of the enemy.\u00a0 And this can be key to success.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-9024 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/05\/risky-strategy-tiger-illustration.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"656\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Tigers are highly selective about their use of information.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They tend to scan it rather than analyse it.\u00a0 They have a natural inclination to look for short cuts and signals.\u00a0 They have a phobia against paralysis by analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 As we have seen, variability is at the heart of risk.\u00a0 We also know that the world would be a dull place without variability.\u00a0 And we are somehow conditioned to want to do something about that variability \u2013 to work with it and, at the same time, against it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a game of tennis where the ball bounced in exactly the same place and to the same height before you hit it.\u00a0 You would master the game very quickly by playing pretty much the same shot every time. You might become very good at it, but how interesting would it be?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026While the elephant mindset is, to some extent, that variability is an annoying distraction, for tigers it\u2019s part their reason to exist. \u00a0In fact, tigers are naturally anti-fragile, according to Taleb\u2019s view of risk. (Taleb, 2012). &#8230; It\u2019s a kind of working <em>with<\/em> the variability and risk, rather than against it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u201cThe best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations \u2026. Food would not taste if not for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty;\u00a0 and an ethical life isn\u2019t so when stripped of personal risks\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Taleb, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our human bodies are built to be anti-fragile \u2013 clearly designed to deal at least as much with the consequences of risk as to be able to avoid it.\u00a0 Wounds heal themselves with relatively minimal outside help, and white blood corpuscles fight off unwelcome bugs which are part of the risky external environment that our bodies inhabit.\u00a0\u00a0 Our health systems seek to create robustness which is a pale comparison to the anti-fragility that is part of our human make-up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 We learn from John Coates in his intriguing book on the \u201cHour between Dog and Wolf\u201d\u00a0(Coates, 2012) that risk is a \u2018whole body\u2019 experience.\u00a0\u00a0 Coates was formerly a financial trader in New York, and then switched careers to become a medical practitioner based in Cambridge in the UK.\u00a0\u00a0 His extensive research looks at how humans respond to risk physiologically, ie through the production and delivery of hormones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears that three hormones play slightly different roles when we are confronted with situations involving some element of risk: cortisol, adrenaline and testosterone.\u00a0 These hormones respond to variable inputs to the body:\u00a0 visual input through the eyes, a sound, a smell or even some kind of impact to our skin\u2019s sensory nerve endings.\u00a0\u00a0 What is interesting then is the role that the brain has in processing this information, and how the hormonal system is tied into that response.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coates observes that in sport, for example, the speed of response needed by a player reacting to an approaching tennis or cricket ball, and making a skilful connection with that ball suggests that normal brain-based analytical processes can\u2019t be too heavily involved.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t the theoretical time for the information to be sent to the brain, processed and sent back to the muscles that need then to respond.\u00a0\u00a0 It would appear that some kinds of pre-conscious and rapid communication between brain and muscles are what actually keeps us alive in fast-moving situations.\u00a0 Hormones have some kind of role in facilitating this, even though the hormones themselves don\u2019t move that fast.\u00a0 Separately, conscious reflection shows up later, to analyse what has happened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From this, we have the concept of muscle memory.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026 Coates observed something very similar, and quite mystifying, on the financial trading floor. Traders, it would appear, seem to develop muscle memory for responding to situations, even before they have very much information, and certainly before they have much time to analyse it.\u00a0\u00a0 He tells stories of traders sensing a buzz on the trading floor, or even change of tone of voice here and there, or the speed at which information was appearing on the screen \u2026 and issuing a \u201cbuy\u201d or \u201csell\u201d order immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speed, once again, in financial trading is of the essence.\u00a0 Being even a couple of minutes slower in executing a trade can make huge differences in financial returns.\u00a0 The trading floor is really a place for tigers \u2013 elephants need not apply!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is even more intriguing to the interplay between risk and strategy is what Coates calls the winner effect.\u00a0 And it\u2019s all down to testosterone. This is based on the study of animals, where winning a fight increases the likelihood of winning again, independent of any other variables such natural strength or size. \u2026Coates believes this same winner effect is evident in humans, having run tests at sporting events such as tennis competitions.\u00a0 Wins will raise testosterone levels, which in turn increases some of the attributes needed to improve the chances of winning again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we see in another way why winning brings risk into the heart of strategy making.\u00a0 If and when risk is a whole body experience, and strategy is about addressing a winning aspiration, one clearly must feed the other.\u00a0 The tigers in the team, or even the tiger within us, not only can feed us with helpful intuition, but also bring a winning physiology to improve our chances of winning again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Risky Strategy: Understanding Risks to Improve Strategic Decisions<span class=\"s1\">, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.<\/span>\u00a0Purchase a copy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Risky-Strategy-Understanding-Strategic-Decisions\/dp\/1472926048\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1472141642&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=risky+strategy\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>About the\u00a0author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-9022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/media\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jamie-Macalister.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Jamie MacAlister (MBA, MA) is a Professor of Practice at Hult International Business School, London, where he has been teaching courses in Global Strategy, Leadership, Coaching and Consultancy. He is also an experienced executive coach, facilitator, strategist, and commercial manager, having previously been Commercial Director at Ashridge Executive Education. He is in the process of helping to set up a business school in Uganda, and supporting a health products agri-business venture.<\/p>\n<p>He specializes in Strategic Risk Taking and has also been part of a team publishing research on corporate leadership in addressing the issue of modern slavery, with a focus on risk in the global supply chain. He has founded and run three small businesses, all still operating, and has previous professional experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Procter &amp; Gamble. He holds Masters degrees from Cambridge University and Wharton Business School, and is an Ashridge-accredited executive coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit Jamie&#8217;s\u00a0blog:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riskystrategy.co.uk\">www.riskystrategy.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kickstart your career with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/undergraduate\/\">Hult&#8217;s undergraduate business school<\/a>. To find out more, take a look at our blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hult.edu\/blog\/5-tips-for-a-strong-undergraduate-application\/\">5 top tips for a standout undergraduate application<\/a>. Download a brochure or get in touch today to find out how Hult can help you to learn about the business world, the future, and yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s faculty\u00a0publications spotlight is on Risky Strategy: Understanding Risk to Improve Strategic Decisions by Hult faculty Jamie MacAlister. 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