Dr Mike Clayton
Mike is an author and speaker, specialising in Projects, Risk, Organisational change, and the science of influence and decision-making.
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Category Archives: Risk Appetite
A Mother’s Touch and its affect on Risk Behaviour
Physical contact can influence decision-making behaviour and willingness to take risks. This is the result of study by a team led by Jonathan Levav at Columbia University Business School. In a paper called Physical Contact and Financial Risk-Taking, co-authored with … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology of Risk, Risk Appetite, Risk Happens!
Tagged decision making, Jennifer Argo, Jonathan Levav, psychology, risk, Risk Happens
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Adventurers, Heroes, Puzzlers and Couch Potatoes
In my last blog, I looked at recent research into a possible genetic basis for our differing attitudes to risk. My Personal Appetite for Risk I’m going to guess that I am the proud bearer of a 4R allele of … Continue reading
Risk Taking – it’s in your genes
Over a decade ago, Chuansheng Chen (at university of California, Irvine) speculated that natural selection may have favoured a gene for risk-taking, to help our species radiate across the globe from our original home in Africa. Nice idea: show me … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience of Risk, Risk Appetite
Tagged attitude to risk, Chuansheng Chen, Dopamine receptor D4, DRD4, Luke Matthews, Paul Butler, risk
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Risk Happens!
Shift Happens! Things change All has been going really well with the publication of my new book, about project risk management, scheduled for July 2011. One small fly in the ointment, that’s all… We’ve changed the name. Let me tell … Continue reading
Posted in Risk Appetite, Risk Management
Tagged book, Rick Happens, risk, Risk management
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Risk and Recession
On BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, on 21 December, Professor Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, was asked to comment on the recent unusually cold weather. In particular, he was asked whether the severe snow … Continue reading
