Crisis Solutions staff are packing their cases for a trip to Singapore this coming week. The team is delivering crisis management training to a whole host of people at a world-renowned bank, but who knows they may find time for a Gin Sling or two at the Raffles Hotel.
Asia seems to be beckoning quite frequently these days. Watch this space for pictures and updates.
The Lizard is currently reading the fascinating book ‘Unthinkable’ by Amanda Ripley. For a book that takes a cold hard look at crises and disaster it’s surprisingly readable and a real page-turner.
She uses an abundance of interlinked case studies that look at how people respond in a crisis and has some practical advise on how to live to tell the tale. The one big takeaway is that people who have had some form of crisis training have a far greater chance of survival.
There are also some extraordinary stories of heroism that make this a far from depressing book, but it is perhaps the totally counterintuitive ways in which people respond to a catastrophe that linger in the mind. The Lizard gives it 5 stars.
