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Aim Higher: Leadership during a time of crisis

Skip Prichard

You can read books and attend seminars. The nature of crisis management is that you can’t plan ahead for them. Yes, we have business contingency planning but a true crisis is often completely unexpected.). So, if we can’t plan, how do we react? Leadership isn’t like that. How to handle a crisis.

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Book Review: “Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All”

The Practical Leader

This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. The book is structured around the main finding of the research. They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." Sounding familiar?

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Great by Choice

Leading Blog

We cannot control much of what happens around us, but the choices we make, as Jim Collins and Morten Hansen’s research confirms, determine our success. Fear and worry is channeled into preparation, contingency plans, buffers and margins of safety. A thought provoking book that, like Collin’s other work, takes us back to basics.