Crisis Leadership
1. Describe a typical application of Risk Management. That is, if you were a risk analyst for a major corporation, describe how you would proceed in advising your organization on which risk or potential crises it needs to prepare for and which ones it should neglect.
2. Explain how Risk Management would lead one to neglect crises such as those that occurred on 9/11. That is, what elements in performing a Risk Management analysis would lead one to neglect certain types of crises?
3. What is critical thinking and why is it central to Crisis Leadership?
4. Why do you think most senior executives/management are unable to see the Big Picture, i.e., to “connect the dots”? Book: Crisis Leadership, Planning for the Unthinkable, Ian I. Mitroff. ISBN 0-471-22918-0