Crisis-ready Leadership

14 Navigating from Crisis to Recovery

Hopefully, Chapter 13 has inspired you to pursue building resilience in your organization and within your context. Inevitably, external influences will cause a crisis. A prepared leader will not make decisions that worsen the crisis into a disaster; rather a prepared leader will make decisions that navigate through the crisis on the swiftest course to recovery and return to normalcy. Operating within a resilient context will facilitate that return to normalcy with the possibility of even rebounding into a better state.

This book contains various aspects of what it takes to become a crisis-ready leader. We will conclude by reviewing the pathway covered throughout the book and compiling the various elements into a formulation for successfully navigating from crisis to recovery.

Lesson Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

• Summarize the role of a crisis-ready leader before, during, and after the crisis.
• Develop a plan of action to ensure your organization and leadership are ready to navigate the next crisis.

14.1 Summary of a Leader’s Role in Crisis Leadership

Throughout this book, we have covered a series of topics that are relevant to a leader and their organization before and during the crisis. Each chapter presented a different building block. Table 14.1 and the remainder of this section summarize the relevance of each chapter and how these chapters relate to each other.

Table 14.1  Crisis leader roles before ...