Topic - Crisis Leadership

Crisis Leadership

The Prepared Leader: The Five Phases of Crisis Management - By Erika James

In The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, two crisis leadership experts - Wharton Dean Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten, president of Simmons University - provide tools and frameworks for addressing and learning from crises. In the following excerpt from their book, James and Wooten identify the five phases of crisis management.

2023-08-08

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Crisis Leadership

Building a Team to Lead in a Crisis: Four Key Steps

Prepared Leaders (those who have worked to ready themselves and their organizations to withstand crises) should be open to all input and perspectives that can help create a solution and improve outcomes, wherever that input and those perspectives surface within the organizational hierarchy.

2022-11-28

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Crisis Leadership

How Do You Make a Decision When Every Option Looks Bad? - By Erika James

In the face of a crisis, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard worked with his team to create a new solution. Here's how other leaders can do the same, writes Wharton Dean Erika James.

2022-10-20

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Crisis Leadership

True Leadership in a Crisis Begins with Trust - By Benjamin Jost

Many companies say that they value their employees, that their workforce is their biggest asset, and that retention of human capital is a key objective. It’s easy to talk when business is good. Yet many companies falter on their good leadership intentions when the tide suddenly turns. Bottom line is; it’s how you treat employees in tough times that define your true company values.

2020-05-13

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