crisis communication

  • How Do You Plan for a Disaster or Crisis?

    • March 13, 2024
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management, Manufacturing, Safety
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    It's important that you plan for a crisis or emergency so you can get your operation back up and running right away.

    Planning for a disaster for your business is never fun, and it can even be a little depressing. That’s because planning for a disaster or crisis is basically dreaming up all the scenarios that can befall your business and then imagining the worst-case scenario. Then you have to come up with all the things that

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  • A Crisis Really Determines What Kind of Leader You Are

    • March 24, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management
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    Sir Winston Churchill. Whatever else you could say about him, he had a cool head in a crisis and he made sure he was seen by the British public during WWII.

    “In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.” — Bear Bryant, former Alabama football coach. The way you handle a crisis shows what kind of leader you are. Are you like many other executives who are afraid and hide in their office? Do you send out your PR

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  • How Do You Recover From a Devastating Incident?

    • October 25, 2017
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Leadership
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    Disaster spelled out on Scrabble tiles. Disaster recovery involves a lot of tiny parts working together.

    Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve had to fire a lot of people over the years, usually related to performance issues. But in the 21 years I was president of the company, I never had a layoff. That was one of my precepts of managing a business: I believed layoffs were really a

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