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Crisis management in times of COVID‐19: Game, set or match?
Author(s) -
Trachsler Tara,
Jong Wouter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5973.12306
Subject(s) - mindset , crisis management , covid-19 , elite , set (abstract data type) , field (mathematics) , public relations , political science , business , computer science , politics , law , medicine , mathematics , disease , pathology , virology , artificial intelligence , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pure mathematics , programming language
COVID‐19 has spread around the world, and crisis teams are working full steam ahead to address its challenges. We argue that crisis teams tend to rely on procedures and responsibilities but largely underestimate the importance of the mindset of individual participants. We posit that crisis management should be regarded as an elite sport and adopt insights from that field accordingly.