Stepping Into the Void

The Stepping into the Void report can be accessed here: https://dokumen.tips/documents/stepping-into-void.html

I haven't posted to this blog in years but was inspired to do so by the fresh insights in an interview with  Rebecca Solnit's about ...

The devastating earthquake in Haiti has produced a remarkable global response. The response, while no means adequate to the immense need, i...

One of the messages that popped into my mailbox after the New Year was an evocative and poetic statement attributed to the Hopi Elders. It ...

It's been a tough year. TIME Magazine's list of the top news stories of 2009 is dominated by crises of all kinds: economic, politica...

Rossbeth Moss Kanter offers some sage advice on making promises. Crisis situations often make promises hard to keep. Kanter writes: "O...

Bill George writes in Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge on crisis leadership and the opportunity it provides to develop one...

I recently ran across this piece from GE's CEO on leading in tough times . Immelt speaks to the personal aspects of leadership . Leaders...

David Noer has a new edition of Healing the Wounds , his classic work on dealing with downsizing. David offers these tips, reprinted here f...

If the renowned organizational sociologist Charles Perrow had a classic-rock theme song, it just might be “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” the ...

In 2008, Meg Young was working in Sichuan Province helping develop a microfinance unit within one of the many rural towns that China’s sweep...

In an insightful blog post , Brian Bacon, CEO of Oxford Leadership Academy , writes of how our self-image shapes how we react in a crisis: P...

One of the key challenges in crisis situations is the transfer of information. The Crisis Leadership Forum pointed out the importance of bui...

"AMERICA seems to have dodged a bullet with the swine flu epidemic" writes Stephen T. Ganyard, a former deputy assistant secretar...

A healthy dose of paranoia and an obsession with failure: That’s not typical leadership advice. But that’s part of what management guru Jim ...

It’s commonly assumed that when it comes to communication that more is better. But if we look closely at what that assumption means regardin...

Despite what the office-supply store Staples says in its latest advertising campaign, most of the time there is no “easy button.” This is es...

Welcome to the “new normal.” That’s part of what management guru Jim Collins recently said in an interview with Fortune magazine senior w...

Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who brought his planeload of 150 passengers down safely in the Hudson river after losing both engines,...

Crises inherently involve people dealing with unanticipated events. And one way that leaders often shape how people around them think about ...

By Kinga A Komorowska MBA Student at the University of Strathclyde - Common wisdom and many research studies have proved there are three ine...

Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten in Learning from the Heroes in Harvard Business Review observe that the core challenges we struggle with ...

The economic downturn ripping through the business world is tearing down some organizations and gutting others. David Hurst, in a column in ...

Crises necessarily challenge assumptions. And certainly the recent turmoil on Wall Street has shaken many assumptions about economic and fi...