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In the event of a fire, fire extinguishers are ready and waiting in your buildings. But how are you prepared for other crisis that have an existential impact on your day-to-day business and your company's success? That is exactly what we are experts in! In this blog, we would like [...]
Risk vs. crisis communication
In the field of crisis management, there is some talk of risk communication and some of crisis communication. In some documents or reports, the terms are used as synonyms for each other or are not clearly differentiated. But is this actually the case? The extent to which the term risk [...]
Risk perception
Have you ever wondered why an event usually has to happen before action can be taken? Why it is only after an event that precautions are taken to ensure that the impact of such an event is not so far-reaching should it occur again? This question is addressed in this [...]
Groupthink – when unanimity becomes a problem
If a group of people finds itself in an overwhelming situation, i.e. a situation where the challenge exceeds the available resources, the whole group may take refuge in a kind of cognitive emergency reaction. What a cognitive emergency reaction is, you can read in detail in the previous blog article [...]
Cognitive emergency response – the flight into familiar action
The fact that humans are creatures of habit is nothing new. They are reluctant to change their familiar behavior patterns. It usually takes 21 days to learn a new habit, and two to three months for something to really become ingrained in the thought pattern. But what if we find [...]
mass panic vs. mass exodus
The Love Parade in Düsseldorf, tragedies in Mecca, 9/11 and, as the latest example, the Lag Baomer festival at Meron Mountain in Israel. The media quickly speak of a mass panic when many people come together, there are bottlenecks or obstacles and the need to regain freedom of breath and [...]