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“In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.”

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Book:Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You

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“We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.”

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Author:Scott McClellan

“Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.”

“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.”

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Author:Lawrence Summers

“Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.”

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Author:Eric Dezenhall

“More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.”

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Author:Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

“If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

“When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

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Author:Magic Johnson

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.”

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Author:Juliet Stevenson

“Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”

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Book:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

Source: The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy