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Leadership in a Crisis

Shiv - April 9- 2020


What is a Crisis?
Different types of Crisis

•Personal
•Team
•Company
•Society
Personal Crisis
Personal Crisis

Friends and Family

Personal

Relatives, Colleagues, Others


Health -Fight
with cancer

Warren Buffett Steve Jobs


Lost their jobs despite doing the right thing

• Perestroika Lee Iacocca Gorbachev


• Glasnost
Perjury

Bill Clinton
Unexpected
Saved all
passengers in
Hudson River
crash
Chesley Sullenberger III
Judgement

Bay of Pigs

John F. Kennedy
Team Crisis
Plane Crash
of 1958
Crisis Internal to a company.
Product Recalls
Crisis due to external forces
Society
Crisis
Leadership needs a crisis to shine through
My Wharton Professor – Michael Useem
Leadership in Crisis is
more about who you are
than what you know
What does a leader need to do in crisis?
• Stay calm but not dispassionate or disinterested
• Communicate with honesty
• Emotional Leadership
• Manage expectations
• Talk, and
• Inspire
Leadership in a Crisis Checklist
• Face Reality
• Things always get worse before they get better
• A leader is not ATLAS
• Crisis and Trust are inversely co related
• Plan worst and best cases
• Deliver before you ask others to
• Make changes, where needed
Thank You
There are many
types of crises

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