Crisisready Leadership Building Resilient Organizations And Communities Bob Campbell by Bob Campbell 9781119700234, 111970023X instant download after payment.

Exercising effective leadership under dynamic and adverse situations can be challenging and requires one’s ability to exercise situational awareness, emotional intelligence, and effective communication skills to make good decisions. However, leading through a crisis requires enhanced leadership skills and character traits due to the speed with which the situation grows and evolves, the size and multitude of different response organizations with varied interests, and escalation of adverse consequences. These factors complicate decision-making due to increased uncertainty, stress, relational complexity, and competing interests.
Recent disasters such as the East Palestine hazardous materials rail incident, COVID-19 pandemic, and various global conflicts demonstrate the need for competent, crisis-ready leaders. Poor leadership and decision-making will often exacerbate a crisis into a disaster with far-reaching cascading effects. Organizations and communities that are unprepared tend to suffer more severe consequences that impact life safety, health, property, the environment, the economy, and reputation for longer periods than their resilient and prepared counterparts.
This text is your roadmap to maturing as a crisis-ready leader. The text compiles leading best practices, theories, and proven leadership experiences to codify a pathway for developing and cultivating crisis-ready leaders. It covers theories and principles of crisis leadership, decision-making, navigating stress, organizational management, and collaboration. But it also provides methodologies for how to prepare for a crisis, build resilient organizations and communities that accelerate recovery, and develop crisis leadership skills.
This book builds on my prior work, “Overcoming Obstacles to Integrated Response Operations Among Incongruent Responders” from the Handbook of Emergency Response: A Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach (New York: CRC Press, 2014) and several courses that I