Book contents
- Constructing Crisis
- Constructing Crisis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Undertaking a New Interpretive Effort
- 2 Crisis as a Reification of Urgency
- 3 Advancing the Crisis-as-Event Model
- 4 Problems, Crises, and Contextual Constructionism
- 5 An Objective Description and a Subjective Uh-Oh!
- 6 Believing Claims of Urgency – Or Not
- 7 The Power of a Good (Crisis) Narrative
- 8 To Create Such a Crisis, to Foster Such a Tension
- 9 Beyond Forged-in-Crisis Leadership
- 10 So What?
- References
- Index
8 - To Create Such a Crisis, to Foster Such a Tension
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- Constructing Crisis
- Constructing Crisis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Undertaking a New Interpretive Effort
- 2 Crisis as a Reification of Urgency
- 3 Advancing the Crisis-as-Event Model
- 4 Problems, Crises, and Contextual Constructionism
- 5 An Objective Description and a Subjective Uh-Oh!
- 6 Believing Claims of Urgency – Or Not
- 7 The Power of a Good (Crisis) Narrative
- 8 To Create Such a Crisis, to Foster Such a Tension
- 9 Beyond Forged-in-Crisis Leadership
- 10 So What?
- References
- Index
Summary
In the once-glorious-kingdom-under-threat master narrative, crisis is problematized as a “bad” situation. The crisis event is taken to be a threat, an attack, a disturbance, a storm, a panic, a failure, a loss, a disaster, some higher-order trouble, a horrific occurrence, a grave predicament, an existential danger, something unthinkable. All things to be avoided if possible and dealt with when necessary. If not managed effectively, after all, the potential outcomes are instability and damage, placing at risk the very existence of the unit. The leader’s job is to navigate the unit through the turmoil unleashed by the crisis and preserve the status quo. This is the dominating view of the crisis-as-event model.
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- Constructing CrisisLeaders, Crises and Claims of Urgency, pp. 165 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019