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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

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

“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

“American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“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

“China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.”

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Author:George Soros

“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

“Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change.”

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Author:Mervyn King

“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

“The best worst example of making people feel unappreciated today lies in the casualness, indeed indifference with regard to massive lay-offs even when there isn't a financial crisis. That is a message to employees that they are expendable, interchangeable, easily dismissed and replaced, often by younger, less experienced and cheaper employees. The essential message being conveyed to people is, You are worthless. What an incredibly dumb thing that is for management to say!”

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Author:Judith M Bardwick

“When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently was read by America's top corporate leaders, and overnight put me in high demand as a consultant and as a speaker. Also, that book forever changed the way businesses look at and deal with crises by giving a tangible feel to an otherwise intangible subject.”

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Author:Steven Fink

“Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.”

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Author:Steven Fink

“Too often, clients want us to give them a one-size-fits-all crisis management plan from off the shelf. Some of our competitors do this because it's fast and cheap. They build a plan once and keep using the same plan over and over with other clients.”

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Author:Steven Fink

“I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.”

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Author:Steven Fink

“Too often, business schools teach academic crisis management theory, if that, but given the diverse and unique nature of crises, all the theory in the world will not help you manage an actual crisis unless you know the basic mechanics.”

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Author:Steven Fink

“Companies that do not actively practice, study, and plan for crisis communications - as well, of course, crisis management - are doomed to fail when a crisis befalls them. Crises are, in a word, inevitable, and those macho companies that think, "it can't happen here," or if it does, "I can handle it," will suffer the hardest failures.”

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Author:Steven Fink

“Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises”

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Author:Jonathon Porritt

“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

“The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It is clear that many banks did not fully implement these fundamental concepts. The obvious lesson is that banks need to improve their corporate governance practices and supervisors must ensure that sound corporate governance principles are thoroughly and consistently implemented.”

“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