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8 - To Create Such a Crisis, to Foster Such a Tension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2019

Bert Spector
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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In the once-glorious-kingdom-under-threat master narrative, crisis is problematized as a “bad” situation. The crisis event is taken to be a threat, an attack, a disturbance, a storm, a panic, a failure, a loss, a disaster, some higher-order trouble, a horrific occurrence, a grave predicament, an existential danger, something unthinkable. All things to be avoided if possible and dealt with when necessary. If not managed effectively, after all, the potential outcomes are instability and damage, placing at risk the very existence of the unit. The leader’s job is to navigate the unit through the turmoil unleashed by the crisis and preserve the status quo. This is the dominating view of the crisis-as-event model.

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Constructing Crisis
Leaders, Crises and Claims of Urgency
, pp. 165 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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