From cyber and physical security to legal and regulatory changes, the breadth and velocity of risk continues to increase for corporations. In fact, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did twenty years ago.

In his book, sociologist Barry Glassner argues that it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of risk. He also claims that we are afraid of the wrong risks, and that there is a cost to society – and a danger to corporations - for focusing on the wrong things and ignoring the things that really matter.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence and Stephen Lassonde, former Dean of Student Life and Lecturer on History at Harvard University and now at Hunter College, interview Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, a national bestseller that was named a “Best Book of the Year” by Knight-Ridder newspapers and by the Los Angeles Times Book Review.