Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: The 21st Century Challenge
Chapter 1 - When Your Back Is Against the Wall
Chapter 2 – The Squeeze, the Smash, And the Rhomphaia
Part Two: Biblical Background
Chapter 3 - The Grammar of Fear and Courage
Chapter 4 – Temptations, Idols, and Ancient Heresies
Chapter 5 – Anti-Fragile Faith
Chapter 6 – Put the Candy Jar on the Lower Shelf
Part Three: Essentials of Decision-Making In Risk
Chapter 7 – Shrewd as A Serpent
Chapter 8 – Thinking About Thinking
Chapter 9 – Witness Risk Axioms
Chapter 10 – Becoming Shrewd as a Serpent
Chapter 11 – Information and Death-Threat Analysis
Chapter 12 - Risk Decision-Making
Chapter 13 – Risk Communication and Trust
Chapter 14 - Embracing Grief and Loss
Chapter 15 - Standing in the Tragic Gap
Part Four: Leadership
Chapter 16 – Systems and the Liminal Moment
Chapter 17 – Ten Mistakes Leaders Make
Chapter 18 – It’s Time to Member Care Job’s Wife
Part Five: Contagious Courage
Chapter 19 – Hope Like a Sewer Rat and PTSJ
Chapter 20 – Mature Courage and Spiritual Nobility
Witness Risk Glossary
Appendix A – Greek Terms Thresholds for Departure/Benchmarks for Return
Appendix B – System Risk Audit Questions
Appendix C – Thresholds for Departure/Benchmarks for Return
Appendix D - Choosing to Stay
Appendix E - Risk Assessment and Management Training (RAM Training)
About the Author
Endnotes
Bibliography
