Strategic Corporate Crisis Management
Building an Unconquerable Organization
Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building an Unconquerable Organization (Routledge, 2022) makes the case that readiness is a capability your people carry. Brendan Monahan shows how to stop treating crisis work as a document problem and start programming the trust, judgment, and operating rhythm that hold when the plan runs out.
Hardcover, paperback, and eBook · Routledge, 2022 · ISBN 978-1-032-10737-0
Frequently asked
- What is the book about?
- Strategic Corporate Crisis Management makes the case that readiness is a capability your whole organization carries. Brendan Monahan shows how to stop treating crisis work as a document problem and start programming the trust, judgment, and operating rhythm that hold when the plan runs out.
- What is Integrated Crisis Management?
- Integrated Crisis Management is Monahan's framework for handling crises that do not fit a plan: wicked problems and creeping crises that build slowly or resist a single owner. It routes each situation by how much is known, matching the response to the conditions: delegate the clear, coordinate the complicated, orchestrate the complex, and take command only in genuine chaos. Read more in Confronting wicked problems and creeping crises: Integrated crisis management.
- Who is the book for?
- It is written for executives, security and resilience leaders, and crisis and business continuity professionals: anyone accountable for how an organization holds together under pressure. Readers who want readiness as a carried capability, or who are preparing for threats no playbook anticipates, will find a practical case and an approach they can put to work.
- How is it different from traditional crisis management?
- Traditional crisis management treats the work as a planning and hierarchy problem: write a better plan, tighten the chain of command, wait for the call. That model breaks the moment reality gets messy. This book treats planning as learning that never stops, and builds readiness across the organization so people can still decide and act when the plan runs out.
What readers say
Crises are progressively becoming more complex, frequent, and severe. As a result, your crisis preparedness and response capabilities must adapt to the new landscape when there is only one chance to "get it right." Brendan Monahan provides Crisis Management 2.0 insights that go beyond traditional preparedness and response approaches. Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building the Unconquerable Organization is a well written and visionary guide for handing crises of the future.
This book serves as a cautionary message to public and private sector managers and leaders that crisis will continue to confront them, increasing in number and unfamiliarity. While public sector organizations such as fire and police departments have come to rely on the usefulness of an incident command type system and command post for managing an unfolding crisis or critical incident, it would serve them well to heed the principles and recommendations of this author. Monahan brings to the fore the criticality of public and private sector organizations being adaptive to ever changing circumstance and situations, developing competencies among organizational personnel and planning and preparations that should continue to evolve. It is beyond difficult if not impossible to plan and prepare for the type and nature of every crisis, however, the author provides thoughtful insight into how leaders and crisis team members can better serve their organizations with the goal of successful outcomes.
As a corporate security senior leader with close to 40 years of federal law enforcement, state government, and private sector security experience, I am excited to see this book from Brendan. From his time as an intelligence analyst, crisis management and business continuity professional, Brendan has developed unique insights on the emerging and complex global risk environment facing businesses today. This book will serve as a great introduction to the next generation of crisis management and business continuity leaders. It will also serve as a clear reminder to my peer/legacy security professionals on the variety, complexity, and impact from these new threats and challenges. As Brendan's book highlights, we should see such incidents/crisis as an opportunity for growth and betterment.
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