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   In The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before, two crisis leadership experts — Wharton Dean Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten, president of Simmons University — provide tools and frameworks for addressing and learning from crises. In the following excerpt from their book, James and Wooten identify the five phases…

  Pfizer Inc. announced the pharmaceutical company’s immediate efforts to provide relief and repair the damage caused to its manufacturing facility in Rocky Mount, N.C., after a violent tornado swept through the town on Wednesday, July 19. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was an EF-3 with peak winds up to 150 miles…

Addressing risk of fire hazards must be a proactive process. Here are some steps facility managers can take. Jet fires, pool fires, and other minor industrial thermal events occur daily, and typically the consequences are contained with relative ease. The ubiquity of fire risk has led some facility managers to view thermal hazard protocols as…

Fire hazards in a healthcare facility can be found in nearly every corner. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities present unique challenges when it comes to fire and life safety. Patients essentially live in facilities for days and even weeks at a time, meaning workers must cook meals and keep rooms warm, but the buildings also…

As sustainability continues to be a growing priority for many business owners and facility managers, there are steps you can take to go with a greener approach. Clean energy is something businesses are moving towards as they try and lower their carbon footprint, reduce heating and cooling costs, and strive to achieve their long-term environmental…

At a glance The current global upheaval may feel unprecedented, but there have been similar periods of acute disruption in recent history, each of which gave birth to a new era with its own distinctive landscape. The most recent era bore witness to the expansion of global value chains and the meteoric rise of digital…