Risk

Living on the Edge

By: Michael E. Tennenbaum, Donna Beech - contributor

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Risk-taker Michael E. Tennenbaum has contributed mightily to American financial institutions, business, and society. A financier, adventurer, and philanthropist, in his debut book, Risk: Living on the Edge, he delivers intriguing insider details on how “impossible” deals are completed, along with an inspiring guide to applying risk-taking successfully to your business and personal life.

Tennenbaum takes us behind the scenes at Bear Stearns, illuminating the end of that great American success story as never before disclosed. He imparts insights from investment banking, risk arbitrage, and options; how he employed risk to achieve competitive advantage after leaving Bear Stearns and starting his own firms; the inner machinations of his high-stakes deals; and the backstory to innovations he created.

A daredevil who feeds sharks and swims with humpback whales, who has lifted off from an aircraft carrier, descended in a nuclear submarine, trained with the US Navy SEALs, taken the Olympic bobsled run in Innsbruck, and driven an elephant in the Mekong River, Tennenbaum describes his theory of risk as the compelling force of some people’s lives and the trait that drives visionary pioneers toward their unending accomplishments.

He shares strategies on applying boldness and challenging the status quo to seize opportunities, face struggles that pay off, manage mistakes, and give back to one’s community. Listening to Risk, you get to walk in the shoes of an unpredictable, very successful self-made man who follows his own path. Applying personal tales of pushing limits and his experiences with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard Business School, and the Joffrey Ballet, among other firms and cultural institutions, he demonstrates how to reach greater heights of performance, achievement, and contentment.

Risk is a fascinating look at financial industry management, non-profits and how to help them grow, civic projects and how to combat inertia, and one man’s craving to move the needle of social progress.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Michael E. Tennenbaum and Donna Beech (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

FUN AND INFORMATIVE READING!

AN ORIGINAL APPROACH TO THE BRAIN PROCESSES THAT FUEL FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING. SPIKED WITH HUMOR AND WALL STREET WAR STORIES, COMBINED WITH SENSIBLE PUBLIC POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS.

Big Money Memoirs

Exceptionally well performed, annecdotally interesting information from a former Wall Street Insider.
Engagingly written, but mostly concerned with sharing memories and explaining author's legacy (AKA "correcting the record") as he nears the end of life. Very little of practical import for the student of finance or investing, though some value can be found in the cast of characters and circumstances encountered.

Great life lessons

Loved the insights and life lessons - definitely going to recommend this for reading at least once.

A Puff Piece

This book is devoid of any worthwhile insight, and feels cobbled together by the ghost writer succumbing to no other tenable alternative.

just flexing his achievements

i was looking for something where i can kearn about risk but thus book is just all about flexing how he git his achievements by risk taking.

Long rambling memoir

Doesnt have anything to offer the reader except telling about his own risks and how he just went for things after analysis and a lot of hindsight about how he should have been more stubborn when others didn't agree. Didn't really find this story inspiring.