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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while BP’s crude killed. Main menu Home. Leadership.

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Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

Harvard Business Review

The end result of this manipulated reality may be that people no longer believe what they hear from a world leader, a celebrity, or a CEO. An obvious scenario, one that some companies might find themselves dealing with in the not-too-distant future, is a faked video of their CEO making racist or sexist comments, or bribing a politician.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.