When an individual's or group's basic survival is threatened, stress becomes tremendous, and productivity drops. Under these conditions a manager's a… - Wheeler L. Baker

Control your risks.
Identify important decision points.
Forecast potential crises.
The solution starts as soon as planning begins!

Pressure can also make managers act out of character. Degrees of panic will cause a normally good manager to lose self-confidence and focus. Under stress, even a good plan can be abandoned.

Poorly managed corporations, disorganized businesses, and badly led service agencies experience crisis daily and most will eventually fail. In contrast, the danger is to well organized, smooth running institutions that may not recognize a building crisis. Too often, sound organizations rely on their normal modus operandi to pull them through a crisis. It might. But at what cost? And what if it does not pull them through?