Browsing: Crisis

The U.S. Treasury Department intervened this week to contain a selloff in long-term government debt, a sign of a mounting financial crisis that is driving an immense escalation of the class struggle. After the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond rose to 5.3 percent, its highest level since 2007, the department announced that it would…

When you are building a business, crisis planning is rarely a priority. Founders are focused on growth: winning customers, hiring talent, launching products and raising investment. Even in established organisations, preparing for disruption is often neglected until something goes wrong.

For some, it is the moment they decide whether to tell someone what happened. For others, it is sitting in an emergency department after a sexual assault, wondering what comes next. Sometimes it is years later, standing in a courtroom only feet away from the person who caused unthinkable harm. Sometimes it is lying awake…