Leadership: Crisis leadership

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Crisis leadership

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Leading with principles under pressure: lessons from Merck and Upwork

Masters of Scale June 29, 2023


Crisis leadership 9
Long-term planning 6
Culture building 5
  • Principles only count when exercising them costs you something real
  • Upwork and Exxon both exited Russia — one lost 10% of revenue
  • Remote work shifts strategy from where work happens to who does it

Crisis leadership

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How Marriott stayed on offense during the worst crisis in travel history

Masters of Scale June 24, 2021


Crisis leadership 8
Long-term planning 7
Retention & loyalty 6
  • COVID dropped Marriott occupancy to single digits — dwarfing 9/11 and 2008
  • Marriott scaled home rentals from 2,000 to 30,000 properties mid-pandemic
  • Losing CEO Arnie Sorensen mid-crisis: how leadership held and moved forward

Crisis leadership

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Leading through crisis: purpose, values, and adapting to a new normal

Bill Gallagher April 22, 2020


Crisis leadership 9
Resilience & grit 7
  • Humans adapt to sustained adversity — shock gives way to action.
  • False promises destroy credibility faster than bad news ever will.
  • Crisis is when values-aligned decisions from the past pay off.

Crisis leadership

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Crisis leadership and the pivot: Ellen Kullman on leading through uncertainty

Masters of Scale April 14, 2020


Crisis leadership 10
Pivoting 8
Case studies 7
  • Four crisis principles distilled from leading DuPont and Carbon through chaos.
  • Carbon went from Adidas shoe soles to 20,000 medical face shields per week.
  • Why short-term earnings focus left industries dangerously without surge capacity.

Crisis leadership

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Verne Harnish's five Cs for leading your team through a crisis

Bill Gallagher March 20, 2020


Crisis leadership 10
Cash flow management 7
  • Daily fact-based communication builds trust when panic spreads fastest.
  • Radical cash requests — like a year of free rent — are negotiable in a crisis.
  • Engaging the whole team in clean-up cuts costs and prevents disengagement.

Crisis leadership

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Mental health strategies for leaders navigating a crisis

Bill Gallagher March 16, 2020


Crisis leadership 9
Resilience & grit 8
  • Chronic stress — not acute stress — is the real immune and cognitive threat.
  • Social bonding during stress triggers neurogenesis, not breakdown.
  • You cannot lead others through a crisis while running on empty.

Crisis leadership

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How to lead your team through a crisis when you don't have the answers

Bill Gallagher March 15, 2020


Crisis leadership 9
Resilience & grit 7
Cash flow management 5
  • You don't need a plan to lead — presence and process are enough.
  • Protect cash first; make unreasonable requests before the business breaks.
  • Rigorous exercise, nutrition, and sleep are non-negotiable under crisis stress.

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