Becoming Good at Crises

Peter Willis and Gareth Morgan believe that the quality of leadership has an outsized impact on any organisation’s chances of coming through crises not just intact but thriving.

During this conversation, Gareth and Peter will set out how anyone who currently leads in an organisation or has an aspiration to do so can be good at crises. They will address the internal questions a leader should consider, since normal life may have done little to prepare them for the demands of leading through a major crisis. They will walk through the six main capabilities they believe any organisation needs to build if it and its leadership teams are to be genuinely resilient when the next crisis arrives.

During the conversation they will draw on their shared experience of how Cape Town navigated two recent existential crises, the multi-year drought that ended in 2018 and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are some early responses from readers on "Becoming Good at Crises: A Fieldguide for Leaders"

“I’m not sure I’ve ever before read a ‘leadership manual', but if the rest are half as good as this, then I have been missing out. Peter Willis and Gareth Morgan have written a highly digestible, instantly relatable guide for how leaders can prepare for the crises we all know are coming, even if we don’t know exactly when or in what form. My copy is covered in notes and underlinings for how to strengthen foresight and develop an “unswerving vision of organisational resilience”.

Mark Watts, Executive Director C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

“Can one be ‘good’ at crisis? Yes! Peter Willis and Gareth Morgan have distilled lessons from recent crises to provide us a practical field guide. An unexpected gift following drought and pandemic, the guide will help leaders and their teams prepare for, and respond to, the challenges ahead.” 

Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens USA

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We invite you to be part of the Allan Gray Speaker Series, bringing together individuals with an interest in re-scripting the orientation of organisational & societal life – to more closely reflect positive values which serve the common good, responsible leadership, clean living, embedding hope for the many and challenging the alienation and damage caused by self-serving decisions, actions and behaviours at all individual levels and within organisations.
 

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