A QUESTION of LEADERSHIP

GENE KLANN

Klann is a senior program associate at CCL in Greensboro. Previously he served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army, with tours of duty in Vietnam, Germany, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Italy, and Belgium. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Free University of Brussels.

Many books and articles have been written about corporate crisis management. But managing a crisis is not necessarily the same thing as providing leadership during a crisis.

One of the things that became poignantly clear in the aftermath of the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 is that during a time of crisis, good leaders naturally and rightfully turn their attention to the human side of the crisis—in other ...

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