Taking Risks: The Management of UncertaintyDonald Wherung and Kenneth R. Maccrimmon examine how the external factors of leaders lives effect their ability to manage and take risks. Emphasizing the importance of a manager's ability and willingness to take risks in their business decisions, Taking Risks reveals how age, education, income, industry, and firm size, among other factors, affect a manager's drive to take risks. "By far the most authoritative and comprehensive study of risk taking