The Crisis Catalyst
The Crisis Catalyst

Author: Darrell Irwin

Publisher: Darrell Irwin

Published: 2021-11-24

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Dear Purpose-Driven Entrepreneur, Crisis is something we have all experienced in life and in business. In fact, the events of the last few years have got us dealing with a collective crisis that none of us could ever have predicted. With more time to reflect, many of us have realised that we want to build more purposeful businesses and emerge out of the crisis stronger than when we went in. Some of us have pivoted our business or even changed the very thing that we are famous for. The question is, how do we stay focused in the midst of these trying circumstances? Here are the questions that need answering... Crisis has always been a natural process of life, but how do we bounce back? How are we supposed to deal with a continual wave of fresh challenges and still remain positive? You feel like you are just getting ahead and then something sets you back. Other people seem to be flowing through the challenges whilst others are spiralling out of control. What is it that makes the difference? Do all crises and recoveries follow a pattern? And, has anyone discovered a way through? Well, The Crisis Catalyst is an answer to these questions. It was written to help entrepreneurs understand that there is a cycle and understanding and navigating yourself through it will inspire hope and hone resilience. This book will help you remain focussed on your convictions and not get distracted by your circumstances. It will help you on the journey of creating something from nothing and dealing with the pressure to scale.

Crisis as Catalyst
Crisis as Catalyst

Author: Andrew J. MacIntyre

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780801474606

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The financial crisis that swept across East Asia during 1997-1998 was devastating not only in its economic impact but also in its social and political effects. The explosive growth and sociopolitical modernization that had powered the region for much of the preceding decade suddenly were dramatically interrupted. East Asia is economically outperforming the rest of the developing world once again and has become a leading force in the global economy. In the wake of the crisis, East Asia changed in important ways. Crisis as Catalyst contains assessments of these changes-both ephemeral and permanent- by a wide range of specialists in Asian economics and politics. The crisis, as the contributors to this volume show, catalyzed changes across political, corporate, and social arenas both in the countries hit hard by the crisis and in others throughout the region. The authors of Crisis as Catalyst examine what has changed (as well as what has not changed) in East Asia since the crisis, explain these variations, and reflect on the long-term significance of these developments.

Wellbeing and Resilience Education
Wellbeing and Resilience Education

Author: Mathew A. White

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 100039199X

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Wellbeing and Resilience Education engages with the immediate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the theoretical and applied elements of wellbeing and resilience education. It explores the implications for students, teachers, and teaching from a transdisciplinary and international perspective. Featuring thirteen chapters written by 27 academics from across the globe, it includes new transdisciplinary research by organisational psychologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, policy experts and education researchers. The book comprises a wide range of topics including: appreciative inquiry, educational leadership, refugee education, resilience education, designing online courses, teacher wellbeing and community responses during the Covid-19 pandemic. This timely volume will be of interest to academics, initial teacher educators, postgraduate students, school leaders and policymakers researching the field of wellbeing, resilience, education, schools, and schooling.

You're It
You're It

Author: Leonard J. Marcus

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1541768051

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Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadership Today, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter. A media controversy. A data breach. In You're It, the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University takes you to the front lines of some of the toughest decisions facing our nation's leaders-from how to mobilize during a hurricane or in the aftermath of a bombing to halting a raging pandemic. They also take readers through the tough decision-making inside the world's largest companies, hottest startups, and leading nonprofits. The authors introduce readers to the pragmatic model and methods of Meta-Leadership. They show you how to understand what is happening during a moment of crisis and change, what to do about it, and how to hone these skills to lead high-performing teams. Then, when crisis hits, you can pivot to be the leader people follow when it matters most. A book for turbulent times, You're It is essential reading for anyone preparing to lead an adaptive team through crisis and change.

The Catalyst Leader
The Catalyst Leader

Author: Brad Lomenick

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 159555498X

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"Your legacy, regardless of where you are in your leadership journey, starts now. Leading well now means finishing well later." - Brad Lomenick We need great leaders. More than ever we need authentic, collaborative, inspiring men and women of integrity at the helm of society- and too often our leaders fall short. Some focus on personal success, alienating those they lead. Others shift their principles when it is convenient. There is a better way. You can energize and inspire the people around you. You can equip a team of principled collaborators to answer God's calling. You can be a catalyst leader. In The Catalyst Leader, Brad Lomenick describes the skills and principles that define a true change maker. This book offers eight key essentials by which a leader can influence others and make a difference, laying out the path to the keys for becoming an effective leader. Lomenick shares wisdom, practical knowledge, and stories of success and failure from his own journey of running Catalyst, one of America's most influential leadership movements. And the lives of dozens of leaders around the world- from the creators of famous reality show to pastors, from ranch workers to a Silicon Valley designer. These men and women are living proof that good leadership inspires and innovates, while poor leadership leaves us with hopelessness and regret. Leading can be a difficult road, and many choose to follow. But you can take a better path. Begin your journey to becoming a catalyst leader.

Dark Beyond Darkness
Dark Beyond Darkness

Author: James G. Blight

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1538102005

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In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the world’s foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual flair and wit, DBD is the first book to take readers deeply inside the experience and calculations of Fidel Castro, who was willing to martyr Cuba if his new Russian ally would nuke the U.S. and destroy it. Blight and Lang have established that in October 1962, the world was on the brink of Armageddon, and that we escaped by luck. Their history is scary but unimpeachably accurate: we just barely escaped the cold and the dark in October 1962. Their history also comes with a warning: we are currently at risk not only of Armageddon-fast, in a war between superpowers, but Armageddon-in-Slow-Motion (the result a climate catastrophe following a regional nuclear war), and from Armageddon, Oops! (a conflict sparked by an accident, which is misinterpreted, and ends in nuclear war). Drawing on the insights of poets, musicians and novelists, as well as climate scientists and agronomists, they show the terrible risk we run by refusing to abolish nuclear weapons.

A Permanent Crisis
A Permanent Crisis

Author: Marc Chesney

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783030005177

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This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy’s seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today. There have been many books since the financial crisis that have considered historical events leading up to the crisis but few that consider a solution. Ten years after the great financial crash, this book synthesises the historical developments and introduces a proposal aimed at rebalancing the economy and society at large. The author presents a novel solution that would change current tax systems in the developed world, in their entirety. This book will be of interest to students, practitioners and researchers, as well as the wider informed audience.

Rescue
Rescue

Author: Ian Goldin

Publisher: Sceptre

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1529366887

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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report. Published in 1942, it was revolutionary and laid the foundations for the welfare state alongside a host of other social and economic reforms, changing the world for the better. Ian Goldin tackles the challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, ranging from globalisation to the future of jobs, income inequality and geopolitics, the climate crisis and the modern city. It is a fresh, bold call for an optimistic future and one we all have the power to create.

Crisis Information Management
Crisis Information Management

Author: Christine Hagar

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-11-09

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1780632878

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This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises. Natural disasters, such as the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 and human-made crises, such as the recent political disruption in North Africa and the Middle East, have demonstrated that there is a great need to understand how individuals, government, and non-government agencies create, access, organize, communicate, and disseminate information within communities during crisis situations. This edited book brings together papers written by researchers and practitioners from a variety of information perspectives in crisis preparedness, response and recovery. - Edited by the author who coined the term crisis informatics - Provides new technological insights into crisis management information - Contributors are from information science, information management, applied information technology, informatics, computer science, telecommunications, and libraries