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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this book, Colonel Thomas Kolditz, a professor at West Point and an on-the-ground military leader, shows how extreme life-and-death leadership skills can offer profound lessons for leaders in any setting. Kolditz explains that his research on in extremis leadership situations, where followers perceive their lives to be threatened, reveals that the leadership lessons and principles in evidence in dangerous settings also apply to leading in business...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From business guru Joseph Michelli-the leadership lessons you need navigate your team and company through the greatest business crisis in modern history, for long-lasting success Within days of COVID-19 disrupting the business world, Joseph Michelli began asking senior leaders at major companies about their specific challenges and how they were meeting them, getting raw yet thoughtful real-time insights into the greatest business crisis in generations....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet...
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Series
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English
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A simple guide to surviving and thriving in difficult situations, The Resilient Leader is the perfect tool to empower yourself and successfully lead through challenges.
Everyone has encountered their own version of a Category 5 storm—whether it's the coronavirus pandemic, launching a new business, drowning in debt, enduring an emotional crisis, or actual flooding in the streets. But events that would normally incapacitate
...Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Manage every business problem like you were born for it -- from a problem customer to a career-threatening crisis It's not being negative or pessimistic to assume that something will always go wrong in business and in your career. It's being realistic. What you do when crisis hits is the only thing matters -- and this proven guide delivers everything you need to take positive action with confidence, skill, and professionalism. In What to Do When...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management.
"The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind? In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A longtime ABC news reporter shows how, rather than try to deny, you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal and ultimately bolster your brand. In twenty years as a TV reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State Football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 2009-2010. The biggest mistake he's seen organizations make is to try...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This business fable teaches valuable lessons on the importance of working hard, maintaining a locus of control and focusing on positive choices instead of negative voices. A lot of people and organizations have made a name for themselves and grew their businesses during recessions and downturns. These successful people and organizations all shared similar characteristics and took similar actions to thrive while others merely tried to survive. You...
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Language
English
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"In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The foolproof guide to damage control from the "masters of disaster"
Whether you're a politician caught with his pants down, a publicly traded company accused of accounting improprieties, a family-owned restaurant with a lousy Yelp review or just the guy in the corner cubicle who inadvertently pushed "reply all," a crisis doesn't have to be the make-or-break moment of your career. For those of us that aren't natural spin doctors, it's hard to resist...
16) Minute zero
Author
Language
English
Description
Judd Ryker, a State Department crisis manager, becomes embroiled in an emergency in Zimbabwe, where a challenge to the presidency has resulted in roving armed gangs, military crackdowns, shady financing, and reports of enriched uranium being available for purchase.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of local events now cascade over national borders and the fallout of financial meltdowns and environmental disasters affects everyone. The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between systemic risks and their...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Revised trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
GLASS JAW is a manifesto in the vein of art of war for an age where scandal can destroy a company's brand and reputation in an instant--from Eric Dezenhall, who runs an elite crisis-management firm in Washington. In this updated edition, Dezenhall examines the intersection of politics and business and the fallout from the corporate “woke” movement "cancel culture," and #MeToo movement. More importantly, he tells us why some players survive attacks...
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