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Big Bird And Mister Rogers Are Not Just For Kids: We Need Their Wisdom More...
Originally published on The Huffington Post, October 22, 2012 Even though the news has obviously moved on, it’s still important to correct a common, and dangerous, misperception that lies at the root...
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Enough Is Enough: It’s Time to Get Tough on Organizations That Involve...
Originally published on The Huffington Post, November, 28, 2012 For over 30 years, I have consulted with regard to and studied virtually every type of crisis imaginable (manmade and so-called natural...
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Deadly Assumptions: When the World Is Shattered
Originally published on The Huffington Post, December 18, 2012 For over 30 years, I have consulted with regard to and studied virtually every type of crisis imaginable (man-made and so-called natural...
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Let No Factor Go Unheeded: Treat Every Causative Factor in Gun Violence as...
Originally published on Nation of Change, December 19, 2012 There are at least two widely differing positions in treating gun violence that surface every time there is a horrendous tragedy like that...
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Treating Gun Violence as an Addiction and a Cult
Originally published on Nation of Change, January 30, 2013 There is something seriously wrong with a society that even has to debate whether it needs to control the most lethal types of weapons in the...
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Want to End Gun Violence? Write A Good Bumper Sticker!
Originally published on Nation of Change, February 8, 2013 One of the reasons why the NRA and rabid gun “enthusiasts” are so effective in getting their ideas across is that they’ve perfected the art of...
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The Banality of Evil Arguments
Originally published on Nation of Change, April 11, 2012 In April 17, 1775, Boswell recorded one of Samuel Johnson’s most famous lines, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” If he were alive...
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The Banality of Evil Arguments, Part II
Originally published on Nation of Change, April 20, 2013 On Thursday April 11, 2013, The Nation of Change published my blog, “The Banality of Evil Arguments.” In effect, I argued that evil arguments...
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Ethical Technologies? A Pipedream? My Love/Hate Affair with Social Media
Originally published on The Huffington Post, April 22, 2013 Let me admit at the outset that I am anything but a fan of social media. I believe that in far too many cases, they pander to the worst...
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American Bhopals! It Starts with Universities
Originally published on Nation of Change, April 28, 2013 On the night of December 2-3, 1984, Union Carbide’s plant in Bhopal, India exploded. Approximately 3800 people were immediately killed. At least...
View ArticleTechnology’s State of Crisis Demand Crisis Management
San Francisco Chronicle, September 16, 2018, p. E7. Make no mistake about it, technology is in a state of crisis of its own making. Technology has betrayed our deepest sense of trust and well-being. It...
View ArticleCorona Virus: A Prime Example Of A Wicked Mess
As one of the principal founders of the modern field of Crisis Management and a lifelong practitioner of Systems Thinking, I’ve been studying and researching large-scale systems crises for nearly 40...
View ArticleProactive Crisis Management: Learning from the Best
As one of the principal founders of the modern field of Crisis Management, my colleagues and I have been studying and consulting with major organizations for nearly 40 years regarding their crisis...
View ArticleA Pandemic of Ignorance and Obfuscation: Why We Repeatedly Fail to Heed the...
By Ian I Mitroff and John Radke Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, UC Berkeley A front-page article in the Monday, March 30, 2020 edition of The New York Times is nothing less than devastating :...
View ArticleCybersecurity Crisis Management: What Can Go Wrong and How to Get It Right
by Natalia Smalyuk and Ian I. Mitroff Solar Wind, the Colonial Pipeline, Canada Post. Hardly a week goes by without a massive hack hitting the headlines. The new pandemic of attacks, with threat actors...
View ArticleCrisis Audits: The Lifeblood of the Socially Responsible Organization
Crisis Audits are the foundation of the Socially Responsible Organization. They are fundamental in assessing the crisis potential of organizations They are thereby the foundation upon which the Crisis...
View ArticleDigging Deeper: Crisis Management, A Special Form of Inquiry
Given that so much is riding on it, Crisis Management (CM) expressly calls for a special in-depth examination in terms of an IS. Basically, an IS is a systematic way of producing knowledge with respect...
View ArticleThe Key Role of Personality in Crisis Management
The Myers-Briggs Personality Framework, which is encapsulated in the Myers Briggs Typology Indicator or MBTI is crucial to the understanding of Crisis Management (CM). Before I begin, I need to...
View ArticleInternal Assassin Teams: The Best Protection for Crises
While there are no sure-fire methods that will guarantee that one is prepared for any and all crises, Internal Assassin Teams are among the best of all of the known alternatives. At the same time, it’s...
View ArticleTearing Down the Walls: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Crisis Management
The late great distinguished Social Systems Thinker par excellence, Russell L. Ackoff said it best of all: “Nature is not organized in the same way that universities are.” The fact that universities...
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