Leadership Disaster

In Design Any Disaster, certified emergency manager and master business continuity practitioner Patrick Hardy reveals the secrets of disaster preparedness that helped him build the largest and most successful small business and family disaster planning company in the world. He explains why: You should never, ever "remain calm" during a disaster, 99% of all disaster plans are a complete waste of time, and fancy disaster equipment and supplies actually leave you less prepared.

Are you ready for the leadership moment? Learn valuable lessons from the stories of Merck's Roy Vagelos, who commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it; Eugene Kranz, who struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft; Arlene Blum, who organizes the first women's ascent of one of the world's most dangerous mountains; Nancy Barry, who leads Women's World Banking in the fight against Third World poverty; and more.

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management. “In a world marred by preventable miscalculation, Juliette Kayyem’s The Devil Never Sleeps provides a playbook for making it out alive.” —The New Yorker The future may...

In January 1990, the crew of Avianca Flight 52 told air traffic control, “We’re running out of fuel.” They never declared an emergency. The words were spoken, but the meaning never landed. Seventy-three people died. That gap—between knowing and speaking, and between speaking and being heard—is the subject of Speak Up!. This book examines some of the most consequential failures in modern history across aviation, medicine, aerospace, and corporate leadership. From the death of Libby Zion in a New York hospital to the collision at Tenerife, from the Challenger and Columbia space ...

When Accidents Happen introduces how to meet the challenges of being a Family Liaison Officer and offers a reference to help support experienced FLO’s in their role. Backing up suggestions with examples from the field the text maps an approach to being a FLO, acknowledging the potential strengths and weaknesses of the position and defining clear parameters for FLO’s to successfully operate within. For those unfamiliar with the potential of the position it will help establish a blueprint to work from and for the more established program it can be a common reference for the team. This ...

Crisis leaders never feel completely prepared. From your first response to your hundredth, you feel the same nerves, the same anticipation, and the same desire to serve with each crisis you encounter. But when disaster strikes, you’re there to make a difference—and you’ll need to rely on more than just your good intentions. ***Winner of the 2023 Goodby Business Book Award for Leadership-Team Building***In Promote the Dog Sitter, former FEMA responder and NATO advisor Ed Conley shares ten proven principles for acting decisively and leading dynamically throughout any disaster. Drawing ...

Corporate history is full of bold strategies, confident leadership, and carefully crafted plans. It is also full of decisions that unraveled companies, destroyed reputations, and triggered consequences no one intended. 20 Corporate & Business Decisions That Imploded Everything examines twenty real-world business choices that looked smart, profitable, or necessary at the time—and ended in collapse. From executive miscalculations and reckless expansions to ignored warnings and flawed incentives, each chapter reveals how ambition, ego, and short-term thinking quietly set the stage for ...

In today's tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. That's precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers. The book features five core chapters revealing five common business hazards, and...

In a world increasingly shaped by disruption, uncertainty, and “permacrisis,” the ability to lead through chaos is no longer a niche skill, it is a core leadership imperative. Originally published in the aftermath of major global disasters, The Crisis Leader has guided thousands of leaders across the humanitarian, business, government, and nonprofit sectors through the complexities of crisis response. Now, in this fully updated and expanded edition, Gisli Olafsson draws on more than three decades of experience leading teams through disasters, pandemics, political upheavals, and digital ...

CAN YOU SURVIVE THESE PR NIGHTMARES? Master Crisis Management Without Risking Your Real Reputation In the high-stakes world of modern business, PR catastrophes don't announce themselves with convenient warning bells. They explode onto your calendar, demanding immediate action and flawless judgment. This groundbreaking interactive guide puts YOU in the executive hot seat during five meticulously crafted crisis scenarios drawn from real-world corporate disasters—from exploding product and devastating data breaches to viral hot mic moments and holiday party scandals. As you navigate each ...

In Station Blackout, Chuck Casto, the foremost authority on responding to nuclear disasters, shares his first-hand account of how he led the collaborative team of Japanese and American experts that faced the challenges of Fukushima. A lifetime of working in the nuclear industry prepared him to manage an extreme crisis, lessons that apply to any crisis situation.

By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Never Go With Your Gut will help you make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters. The leading expert on avoiding business disasters, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, draws on over 20 years of extensive consulting, coaching, and speaking experience to show how pioneering leaders and organizations - many of them his clients - avoid business disasters.

A darkly humorous collection of history's most spectacular institutional failures, from the nursing school that rejected Rosa Parks to the Dutch admiralty that burned their own fleet to avoid accountability. These 27 tales reveal how bureaucratic blindness, corporate arrogance, and well-intentioned stupidity have shaped our world in ways both tragic and absurd.

Now a number one international best seller! Half of all new businesses in the US and UK fail within five years. They fail for various reasons, but the main issue is that business owners either don’t face up to their problems at all or when they do, it’s too late. Face It & Fix It is a must-listen audiobook for owners of struggling small businesses; those who don’t have a moment to lose before disaster strikes and their business is lost. It is a hard-hitting and easy-to-understand guidebook that explains how any small business can be transformed into a success.

Family businesses thrive in some of the world's toughest environments, providing vital lessons for businesses everywhere. The bulk of the world’s growth in population and economic activity in the foreseeable future will be generated in the developing world. This is precisely where enterprising...

When the lights die, the badge is the last law left. In a silent, broken America, the grid has failed and the old rules are gone. Nine sheriffs are left to face a world where starvation, betrayal, and violence are as constant as the silence overhead. This collection brings together nine harrowing tales of survival and justice after the EMP collapse. Each sheriff must decide—protect the innocent, defend their community, or seize power when no one else can stop them. From desperate towns clinging to order, to lone officers forced to choose between mercy and survival, Sheriffs of the Silence...

Sam Hyatt is a high school teacher and Karate instructor in Montana, with a wife and two kids. He never expected to find himself struggling to protect his students and family in a world gone mad, where unknown powers who may be Gods or aliens or something unimaginable, have rewritten the very laws of physics. Now he and those he loves must survive in the collapsing remains of Colorado while all around them reverts to barbarity and horror. Father Markus is a hospital chaplain, accustomed to serving the living and the dying in his quiet daily rounds. He never expected his faith and his life ...

In this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your professional life. What do elite members of the military...

In Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth—CEO of global venture capital firm Next47—describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation. He starts with the premise that building a business based on innovation is a perilous endeavor, and failures big and small are always around the corner. Ananth then dives into instances of failures, guiding the listener to understand root causes. Finally, he provides listeners with insights and coaching that will enable them not just to avoid failure, but to anticipate it and then get through it on the way to success.

Brought to you by Penguin. A STORY OF HOPE, PERSEVERANCE AND RESILIENCE IN THE MIDST OF WAR Louai Al Roumani was head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria, when the war broke out in 2011. In Lessons from a Warzone, Al Roumani shares his very personal account of coping...