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Aim Higher: Leadership during a time of crisis

Skip Prichard

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? In a crisis, I focus on what I need to get my team what they need.” – Jennifer Collins. .

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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. They zoom-in and zoom out to manage risk and recognize luck.

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

The Practical Leader

As with Collins’ first book, Built to Last , and with Good to Great (read my review of both books on LinkedIn or The Leader Letter archive ), they compared the outstanding companies to a control group of comparison companies in the very same industries and extreme environments that failed to thrive. Sounding familiar?