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DESCRIPTION:When President Reagan was shot on March 30\, 1981\, Al Haig\, t
 hen Secretary of State famously said:  “ As of now\, I am in control at th
 e White House”.\n\nThe President was in the hospital\, the Vice President 
 was in the air and incommunicado\, and the Secretary of State wanted to in
 dicate that their nuclear arsenal was under control.  Except he sort of ha
 d it wrong.   The order of succession in the US goes to the Speaker of the
  House and the Speaker Pro Tempore of the Senate and THEN to the Secretary
  of State.  On the other hand he was managing the crisis and trying to con
 vey confidence and wave off any foreign leader who might have wanted to te
 st the command and control structure of the United States.  He was in cont
 rol.\n\nThere have been many crises in Canadian history and many of them h
 ave benefitted from ex post reviews and post mortems.  We have seen the Co
 nscription crisis\, the Oka standoff\, Referenda crises\, the 1998 Ice Sto
 rm\, the Red River flood just before an election\, Y2K\, 9/11\, SARS\, H1N
 1 and many others.  \n\nHow do you manage in the “fog of war”?  Imperfect 
 information is endemic and judgments made ex ante are almost always wrong 
 ex post.  How to deal with decision making in the presence of extreme unce
 rtainty?  \n\nNobody is ever totally in control.  How do you exercise your
  authority when the wheels are falling off?\n\nInterpersonal relations onl
 y matter when you need them.  How do you build trust during a crisis?  How
  important is it to build good\, trusting\, confidence inspiring interpers
 onal relations during times of calm so that they can be used when needed i
 n times of crisis?\n\nCalling on several of these we will look at lessons 
 to be learned from past crises.  Can you plan for a crisis?  How do you mo
 bilize your staff?  How do you manage during a crisis?  How important is s
 ituational dynamics?  How do you manage a crisis and still plan for the lo
 ng run future?  \n\nCurrent crisis management of COVID-19 has brought out 
 the best and the worst in people.  Several of our political leaders have r
 isen to the occasion and have shown genuine talent at leadership.  Some of
  our leaders have known when to get out of the way and defer to others.  S
 ome of our compatriots have chosen to spam us with nonsense pandemic hoax 
 cures and treatments.  Some of engaged in price gouging and exploitation o
 f the vulnerable.  Should prices go up during a crisis?  Some would have u
 s rely on the value of the price system to signal responses required.  Oth
 ers would have us suppress the price system to have government interventio
 n supplant individual decision making.  When is it correct to rely on pric
 es and when should the market be managed?\n\nAll of these questions will b
 e addressed in this webinar.  A few of them will be answered.  And all of 
 them should be considered stimulation for your thinking as we learn for th
 e future from this crisis.\n\nThis webinar with Mel Cappe is part of our P
 olicy Challenges During a Pandemic Series.\n\nRegister here.\n\nThis webca
 st is open to the public. Priority during the Q&A section of this webcast 
 will be given to Max Bell School MPP students. You can access the full ser
 ies of briefs and webinars for the Policy Challenges During a Pandemic ser
 ies here and sign up to receive email updates about this series here.\n
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: “I Am in Control”: Lessons in Crisis Management from Past 
 Crises
URL:/maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-i-am-control
 -lessons-crisis-management-past-crises-321649
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