the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
The south's drying out in a drought, and government officials are starting to wonder if the devil went down to Georgia. Sonny Perdue, the state's governor, is doing everything in his power -- including invoking a higher one -- to combat the drought. Today he'll join lawmakers and ministers on the...
This research project was conducted to examine the concept of crisis leadership. This exploratory research project demonstrated that preparation may not be the key to managing a crisis; instead, organizations should focus on developing leadership skills and top communicators should identify who are the most effective individuals to lead during...
Strategic leadership is the process of providing a definitive direction and vision to the corporate strategy and sustaining long-term organizational goals. Effective leadership is imperative for successful operationalization of business strategy. It also plays an important role in successfully managing crisis in the organization. The paper examines the dynamics of...
"To help managers with decision-making when their companies or organizations are in crisis, this article focuses on the three most common mistakes made by managers of deeply troubled companies and points to how managers might improve their behaviors as a way to improve their communication. More than ever, it...
Crises are turning points in our lives, which are not necessarily negative, but have the potential to be; we can emerge with credit from almost any critical situation. Any organization can undergo a crisis. This paper asserts that the key to successful crisis management and communications is preparation and planning....
Crisis management is not a discipline to be learned on the job, in the midst of the storm. It must be learned and practiced when there is not a cloud in the organizational sky. Crisis management is a test of the quality and character of leaders as much as it...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WRITTEN over four centuries ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to have a universal appeal for their absorbing stories (of kings, queens and dukes; of battles, rivalries and political turmoil of the time, of love, honour and betrayal), and also for the sensitive, rich, and eloquent use of...
Greater Talent Pool Provides Unique Opportunity for Financial Institutions to Develop "All-Star" Teams During Sluggish Economy ATLANTA -- Collaborative, detail-oriented, conservative and fearless are the most desirable personality traits among peak performers in the financial services industry, according to a new white paper from TalentQuest, a human capital...
Savaged for reacting slowly to the Northern Rock affair, the Governor of the Bank of England has managed to come out of the crisis stronger, winning new powers from the Government and his own choice of deputy. Richard Northedge reports Given the Bank of England's failure to...
ABSTRACT This study offers a unique perspective on crisis management in action. The eye of Hurricane Ivan (September 16, 2004) struck the city of Pensacola FL and inflicted major damage to the University of West Florida UWF campus just a couple of weeks after the start of the semester....
ESS , theleading provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S)and Crisis Management software for enterprise sustainability , today announced the appointmentof J. Scott Lockhart as the company's Chief Operating Officer. Lockharthas strong industry experience and expertise in managing technologyoperations and his leadership is expected to support...
TOM Smith, the newly appointed chairman of the Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum Acsef , has promised to use the city's recent spate of bad headlines as a "catalyst for step-change" as the private sector consolidated its unique leadership role in the region's economic strategy. Managing...
Shelf Life CRISIS LEADERSHIP NOW: A REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO PREPARING FOR THREATS, DISASTER, SABOTAGE, AND SCANDAL by Laurence barton, phd One of the world's leading experts in crisis management, Laurence Barton, begins Crisis Leadership Now with the nightmarish images of Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. He...
Acumen Solutions, a leading business andtechnology consulting firm, announced that it has launched a BoardLeadership Initiative for its executives as a part of the corporation'son-going Social Responsibility program. The company will train and gainplacement for their managers onnon-profit boards in Washington, D.C. to address what some are terming 'acrisis in...
The Korean presidents; leadership for nation building. Kim, Choong Nam. EastBridge 2007 424 pages $29.95 Paperback JQ1725 Kim (East-West Center, Honolulu) served three presidents of the Republic of Korea as an assistant and taught...
In Praise of Small Nonprofits As a fairly new reader of Nonprofit World, I've found that the magazine has a lot of practical information and research that's useful to nonprofit leaders. You provide what this fast paced society requires - articles that get to the point; are poignant, insightful,...
OTTAWA AFP — Some of Canada's polar bear populations risk being wiped out within four decades because of climate change and human activity including hunting, the World Wide Fund For Nature warned Sunday. Canada, whose frozen north is home to two-thirds of all polar bears, is contributing to...
The Transportation Security AdministrationTSA has named Nancy Baggott as the federal security director for LongBeach Airport, Long Beach, Calif. Baggott has worked in the TSA's Transportation Security Operations Centersince 2003, most recently serving as command duty officer responsible forthe operational coordination and crisis management response on a nationalscale. "Nancy brings...
The corporate world is in an extreme state of flux. The sub-prime crisis, the incredible rise of parts of the developing world, developments in forgotten places like Africa and other factors are changing the game. At the same time, the markets continuously scrutinize the short-term performance of companies and CEOs....
TODAY'S LEADERS MUST BE AS COMFORTABLE MANAGING IN MUMBAI OR TOKYO AS THEY ARE IN LONDON OR NEW YORK. BY FRANK BROWN The corporate world is in an extreme state of flux. The sub-prime crisis, the incredible rise of parts of the developing world, developments in forgotten...
