Can one be good at crises?
Yes!
“Peter and Gareth have distilled lessons from recent crises to provide us a practical field guide. An unexpected gift following drought and pandemic, it will help leaders and their teams prepare for, and respond to, the challenges ahead.”
Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens USA
How to get your copy of the book
Available internationally as a print-on-demand paperback:
Also available as an eBook from Amazon Kindle & other online booksellers
Order the paperback for delivery within South Africa.
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What will you gain from reading this book?
Confidence - and a lot of practical ideas. You will come to understand why, how and where you can lead your people effectively, no matter what kind of crisis your organisation faces. For example:
Determine whether your organisation is ready to be good at crises.
Explore what leading through a major crisis will demand from you personally.
Examine the four phases of a crisis and learn what to concentrate on during each phase.
Discover the six core capabilities that your organisation needs to build now in advance of the next crisis arriving.
Develop the habit of paying attention to weak, early signals of crisis.
Know when to declare a crisis and the importance of owning it.
Learn how to build your crisis management team.
Become smart about the ‘crises within the crisis’.
Realise the value of learning from a crisis and how this can transform your organisation over time.
Major crises always bring turmoil to an organisation. Our book gives you fresh ways to structure your own leadership approach, see through that turmoil and bring your organisation through, stronger than when you went in.
The Authors
Peter Willis grew up in the UK and studied history at Oxford University. In 1993, after fifteen years of working in London, he moved to Cape Town with his South African-born wife, who was returning from political exile. In South Africa, he pioneered sustainability leadership development, and from 2002 to 2014 was African director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Since 2014, he has been a freelance facilitator of innovative processes and strategic dialogues and a leadership mentor. He also trains people and whole teams in the art of facilitating breakthrough meetings and workshops. From 2019-2022, Peter was one of the founding fellows of the Institute for Strategic Risk Management. Read more on his website: www.conversations.pw
Gareth Morgan grew up in Durban, South Africa. He studied political science at the University of Natal, and then environmental change at Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of South Africa in 2004 and served there for nine years. His legislative focus areas included water and environmental affairs. For the last decade, he has been a senior official in the City of Cape Town metropolitan government and is currently the Executive Director of Future Planning and Resilience. He was part of the leadership team that developed the strategic responses of the city government to the Day Zero drought and the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a Tutu Fellow and an Aspen Global Leadership Fellow. He was recently appointed as a member of the board of directors of the Resilient Cities Network.