Melissa Agnes

JANUARY 5, 2015

In fact, as we saw with the Sony crisis in December, these risks and threats are only bound to grow – as are today’s crisis management challenges. So why not lead into 2015 on a crisis-intelligent note? The following are three absolute must-do’s to help you do just that. But let’s not be fooled.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 4, 2016

Being able to filter, manage and be heard through the incessant noise, is one of the challenges that law enforcement needs to be prepared to face and overcome in today’s crisis management. And while this reality presents a major challenge, not being able to do this means continuing to lose control of the narrative of the crisis.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 30, 2014

Hashtag campaigns are risky business, which is why I recently wrote a post on how to launch a successful hashtag campaign. Twitter is far too valuable a communications channel for organizations (with common sense) to leave it. Awareness is the first step towards preparing your organization. A coincidence? Definitely not.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” When a data breach happens, there is nothing worse than trying to figure out how to manage the crisis on the fly as it is still happening. That’s why every strategic marketing plan, and every company’s overall security strategy, should incorporate a data breach communication plan. A news cycle begins.

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Henman Performance Executive

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Well, there are rules against that sort of thing, so the three young airman on duty decided to walk three-abreast to confront the cat. A few steps into the mission, they decided they might want to drive to the cat in a fire truck. A few steps into the mission, they decided they might want to drive to the cat in a fire truck.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

While it’s difficult to remove all stress as you plan to head out of the office, the following strategies can help reduce your headache and set yourself up for success once you return. What if people think I’m a bad person for taking time off if I’m not completely on top of my work? Plan ahead.

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Henman Performance Executive

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As he and Rafael Furcal collided, the game looked more like a Three Stooges episode than a competition involving world-class athletes. No one steps up, yells “Mine!” A building full of virtuoso talent that won’t communicate with each other when they need to won’t help you any more than average talent. Communication.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. In her words, “Everything felt like an urgent crisis, so I acted like it was.” Traps like these keep you stuck in triage mode.

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Henman Performance Executive

AUGUST 29, 2011

The Jobs of Succession Planning. In recent years, no other enterprise leader has been so successful. One indicator of a leader’s success and an organization’s health is how well the company survives the departure of a key leader. Their bench strength and succession planning obviously represent the gold standard.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Medicine has all three of these elements. The first step is for healthcare organizations to commit to understanding the problem. The first step is for healthcare organizations to commit to understanding the problem. Carmen Martínez Torrón/Getty Images. This needs to change. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 26, 2012

To give a frame of reference, most successful professional football players are big guys, but beyond a certain weight, you don’t see increased skill or excellence. I even tried to help him develop a three-step process for giving information that would take him 30 seconds. Communication. Crisis Management.

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Henman Performance Executive

JULY 26, 2011

Your face should have nothing to do with your success. Then, if the point person takes vacation, a second steps up to fill the void. When I was a child, every summer we packed two parents, three kids, a dog, a cat, (and one year three kittens) into a station wagon and drove two thousand miles to see my grandparents.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

Problem-finding boards understand the three drivers of ungoverned incompetence — a collapse of competence, shortcomings in self-governance, and inadequate corporate governance — and why they can be so hard to detect. After three years the company wrote off three times the acquisition cost. Collapse of Competence.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Our goal: to crack the code of these women’s success, in order to help organizations better identify and leverage their highest-potential female leaders and to ensure more women succeed in the future. But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster?

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 14, 2015

I took a solid three months to prepare for my TEDx speech and, for those of you who may be interested in – or even in the process of – creating your own TED talk, I wanted to share my experience with you here today. Step 1: Research. A TED speech is meant to be both inspirational and aspirational. Content creation.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

The majority of my successes in my career have been in getting those two groups to kind of talk together and to take the engineering vision, and kind of bound it with the operational limitation, and make sure everybody is on the same page. And our topic today is really focusing on those product companies. I’m not a strict operator.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. In Kansas, teachers are threatening to strike because their legislature continues to fund schools at a level the state Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 3, 2020

In fact, after the financial crisis of 2009, I had the best four years ever in my business. Yes, direct, live communication with my audience is getting better results than anything else right now. I write it three times. 6 – I focus on contribution, not on success. Success is overrated. So, do I have a secret?

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Social media’s impact on crisis doesn’t just exist for organizational crises or emergencies such as natural disasters. These three things make for a great keynote presentation because they’re the heart of crisis communications in this 21st century.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

You may think that success can be achieved by excelling at either strategy or execution individually—that great visionaries can change how we see the world, or that amazing operators can wind up outperforming competitors. We intuitively knew that there must be leaders that span these areas, but in fact, few do. Insight center.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. Overload is one of the three predictable crises that companies experience as they grow. It feels horrible: You’re scaling up aggressively and working harder than ever, but with each passing day you feel more overwhelmed. What’s going on? His mission has changed.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. Through these career catapults, executives build the specific behaviors that set successful CEOs apart — including decisiveness, reliability, adaptability, and the ability to engage for impact — and they get noticed for their accomplishments.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 3, 2015

In part one of this three-part series, I began by sharing a little about my experience keynoting at NATO’s recent Public Diplomacy Forum in Brussels. Within the second part of this three-part series, I’m going to discuss what it means to be proactive and why it’s so important for successful crisis management.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

For more than 40 years, we have worked side by side with extraordinary leaders to help them spur changes and drive transformation in their organizations, businesses, and industries. The following list of 31 books on leadership and change is comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders.

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