Crisis
Leadership : -
SURFING
ON THE FRONT OF THE WAVE WITH THE TRUSCOTT -
MISHA NETWORK TEAM
Corporate Governance and Crisis Leadership
For
those companies who want to maintain and enhance excellence
the Truscott - Misha Network Team is offering
Indian companies the opportunity to develop capability to
implement crisis strategies in the boardroom and deliver
effective leadership under pressure
The
future is for sale and it is all about surfing on the front
of the
wave
instead of being in front of the iceberg
The
business environment has changed forever. Those that choose
to paddle their canoe in the new Corporate Governance sea
are developing their capability to capsize and recover in
order to regain their commercial position and claw their
way towards superiority and even dominance.
Crisis
capabilities have certainly matured across sectors, driven
in part by attitudes to Corporate Governance. To some organizations,
Crisis Management is still just hot Issues Management in
a hurry. To others Crisis Management has become Corporate
Emergency Response in the aftermath of safety and security
incidents. To others still, Crisis Management is a subset
of Business Interruption and Disaster Recovery. Most organizations
perceive it as a tool to treat danger and less so, opportunity.
The
reality is that the majority of these philosophies are just
planning for what is regarded as inevitable. But what we
see evident in the best organizations is those that plan
for the unthinkable. These are those that recognize the
difference between Crisis Management and Crisis leadership.
All
organizations see Crisis Management as the tool to regain
the status quo or the immediate past. The best organizations
now use Crisis Leadership to exploit the future. They are
not so much focussed on fixing the hole in the fence as
they are of exploiting the opportunities of the open paddock
beyond.
Business
thrives on instability and there is plenty of room at the
top. If you want to have a healthy appetite for risk then
you need to have a finely tuned Crisis Leadership capability
to stay at the top. Some of our clients will invoke their
Crisis Leadership Teams, two and three times in one month.
It is not recognition of management failure, but rather
a mechanism for seizing opportunity and generating business
tempo.
What
is the point of acting conventionally in business?
The
best companies understand that learning faster than your
competitors, provides the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Just as Chief Information Officers are evolving towards
Chief Knowledge Officers, managers of the immediate past,
so to do we predict that Corporate Affairs Managers will
evolve towards Chief Intelligence Officers and become managers
of the future.
If
you wish to lead in business you must be able to function
in a non-business as usual environment and to be able to
capitalize on negative events. Best in class is benchmarking
and learning from others mistakes and successes. All executives
emerge with cohesion when they participate in extreme leadership
sessions and prove that they can align their communications
with the operational response.
The
Truscott - Misha Network Team
We
represent a collective pool of talented and seasoned Crisis
and Communications Practitioners that ought to be tapped
in the pursuit of being best in class.
