ABSTRACT
This chapter cannot contain the wide sweep of subject matter required to study humans, but an indicative sense of the challenge can be offered in the form of three particular questions that provide a sense of what is entailed in the social science view. Is it possible to develop insights into the role individual people—and particularly executive decision-makers—play as both exposures to risk as well as potential sources of risk—and as possible solutions to risk challenges? By examining bad or destructive leadership, can we gain insights into the human dimension of risk leadership and its relationship to followers? What roles do remembering, forgetting, and openness to imagine play in considering risk management or risk leadership as a way of thinking? The chapter takes a closer look at various artifacts that characterize human behavior in order to explore and illuminate aspects of these questions.
