Conclusion: Staff remember how leaders behave and react during a crisis, rather than when the business is operating successfully. Astute leaders do not just deal with restoration and getting the business back on deck; they also support their staff during and after the crisis and can even create the potential for the organisation to be in a better state than before the crisis occurred.
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Who wasn't moved by the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant English mathematician whose dedicated team cracked the Nazi Enigma code and saved countless lives during World War 2?
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"About 18 months ago at least, businesses across the whole.....
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In order to improve business performance, or reduce the cost of doing business,.....
Forensic software firm Nuix has begun a search for a new chief executive with a "global IPO skill set", all but confirming plans to pursue a public listing in 2017 that may deliver the ASX a new $1 billion-plus technology company.
The move.....
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FireEye has recently struck a deal Microsoft, designed to place the security vendor's iSIGHT Intelligence into Windows Defender, an inbuilt Windows security offering.
Terms of the deal will see FireEye gain access to telemetry from every.....
The Reserve Bank of Australia's top technology executive has said the central bank's networks are being probed by potential hackers every two seconds and that almost 70 per cent of the emails received by RBA addresses are malicious.
In a.....
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