Level Up Your Crisis Management Skills
Leaders who have successfully managed crises in governments and large organizations aren’t innately better at it. Interviews with high-level leaders in a variety of industries found that people with strong crisis management skills have invested time and effort to develop maturity in seven key areas, dubbed the 7C’s: contingency planning, cross-functional coordination, transparent communication, compassion, confrontation of hard truths, control, and continuity.
Authors
- Killian J. McCarthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-9881)
- Rick Aalbers
- Arjan Groen
Publication Details
- Journal
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- Published
- 2026-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.63383/fere1416
- Primary Topic
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00