When a crisis ends a crisis April 23rd, 2019 Planes will crash, oil rigs will explode, food will get contaminated…and old wooden cathedrals will burn down. That’s their nature. We ca...
Why a crisis is fun April 15th, 2019 You don’t believe the headline? Well it’s true. A crisis gives you one of the best highs you can get from nature’s own superdrug – adrena...
Crisis types: the shot to the foot April 9th, 2019 There’s no word for it in English but that does stop people using the German word: schadenfreude – taking pleasure in the discomfor...
The spiral of death March 26th, 2019 The problem with a crisis is that as soon as one happens, there will be after-shocks, just as you get with an earthquake. Once an organis...
A crisis of confidence March 11th, 2019 Oil rigs will explode, food will be recalled and, unfortunately, air planes will crash. But, last week’s tragedy of an Air Ethiopian Airl...
Droning on about drones February 27th, 2019 Droning on about drones The best way to handle a crisis is to stop it happening in the first place. Last Christmas at the height of the h...
The Boy In The Plastic Bubble September 28th, 2015 In the 1976 film ‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’, John Travolta plays a character forced to live in a sterile bubble due to his weakened ...
A Bug’s Life September 23rd, 2015 If you are of a certain age you might remember the films of ‘Herbie the Love Bug’; an anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle, with a mind of i...