Stanley McChrystal retired in July 2010 as a four-star general in the U.S. Army. He was Commander International Security Assistance Forces - Afghanistan. He had previously served as Director, Joint Staff and Commander Joint Special Operations Command. The author of My Share of the Task, Team of Teams, and Leaders, he is currently a senior fellow at Yale University s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and the cofounder of McChrystal Group, a leadership consulting firm.
 
Anna Butrico graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in English after spending time at St. Anne s College, University of Oxford. She joined McChrystal Group in 2018, where she has advised Fortune 100 companies and partnered with General McChrystal as his speechwriter. This is her first book.

TIMELINESS: In a moment when the world is grappling with COVID and readers are hungry for advice on how to move forward, McChrystal offers an antidote to the unexpected, showing how organizations can improve their risk resistance and successfully plan for the unknown.BATTLE-TESTED STRATEGY: McChrystal posits a totally new and practical way of understanding and managing risk drawn from his unique military and corporate experience that is a natural compliment to his TEAM OF TEAMS ethos.TRACK: McChrystal's previous books, Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, were instant New York Times bestsellers and remain long-term backlist classics, having sold over 335K and 95K copies respectively across all formats. This book is a natural extension of his "team of teams" paradigm.PLATFORM: McChrystal has had over 30 media appearances since COVID-19, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Washington Post, Inc, Financial Times, The New Yorker, CNN, and Forbes. He maintains an intensive speaking schedule of approximately 90-100 events a year, though during the pandemic he's had 15 in-person events and about 65 virtual events. The McChrystal Group podcast "No Turning Back" has ammassed 1K subscribers since its launch two months ago.

From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown.

Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed.
 
In this new book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Instead of defining risk as a force to predict, McChrystal and coauthor Anna Butrico show that there are in fact ten dimensions of control we can adjust at any given time. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.
 
Drawing on examples ranging from military history to the business world, and offering practical exercises to improve preparedness, McChrystal illustrates how these ten factors are always in effect, and how by considering them, individuals and organizations can exert mastery over every conceivable sort of risk that they might face.
 
We may not be able to see the future, but with McChrystal s hard-won guidance, we can improve our resistance and build a strong defense against what we know and what we don't.