Crisis leadership research is important owing to the unpredictability, cost, duration and intensity of the crisis. Leaders all around the world struggle with the challenges of crisis (Prewitt & Weil, 2014), which demonstrates the undeniable fact that leadership and crisis are closely intertwined. Therefore, the reaction of the leader towards the crisis is of utmost importance. Crises, which are…
This book is primarily about the practice of management – the art and science of getting things done. But it is also about leadership – how things get done through people. Management and leadership are different but complementary activities, as explained in Chapter 1. The activities of management and leadership take place in order to make things happen – to get results. The book th…