Tough Talk About Crisis Management

The General's stance reminds me of another useful saying: Principles before personalities. Personalities can be useful if the exhibit themselves in ways that help in mission accomplishment.

This is a collection of wisdom that no doubt has been tested and retested in the General's life. Frequently with crisis come hysteria and without decisive leadership disaster ensues. Give me an experience military man every time. They'll out perform a politician by multiples. Thank you General! Then there is the sensitivity to the team, avoiding the spoiler, keeping the mission as the unifying factor, details that could be overlooked by a lesser leader. Now, it is the initial part of the interview that really scares me. The point that the lack of preparation significantly inflamed this crisis. My personal concern is that lack of preparation is not limited to New Orleans. Throughout the country there are many potential disasters waiting to happen. I'll only mention the one that concerns me the most. Several years ago there was a particularly virulent strain of influenza in Taiwan, my daughter was visiting there so the incident is particularly vivid in my memory. I expected that that the United States might have discontinued flights from Taiwan. This possibility of course cause me some ambivalence. I think Canada did limit flights. If this strain was as virulent as they thought it might be. Let's say it might be like the epidemic of 1916, the losses could have been astronomical, and the interpretation of the losses would be that they we're unavoidable. May be I'm being too dramatic but I believe that the infrastructure of the United States has very protection against such crises ready to become disaster

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