{"id":1528,"date":"2018-06-26T18:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-worldwide.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2024-05-15T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:50:12","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceo-worldwide.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-for-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare for crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no company that did not face or survived a time of crisis. Of course, there are many specialists to turn around a crisis, but wouldn\u2019t you rather want to prevent the situation from turning into a crisis in the first place? You want to know how?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.female-executive-search.com\/meet-our-women-leaders\/short-bio\/?cntc_id=58934#video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.female-executive-search.com\/meet-our-women-leaders\/short-bio\/?cntc_id=58934#video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Elodie, Interim Executive - France: How to prepare for crisis\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_5lS0LzUdbIA\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5lS0LzUdbIA\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lS0LzUdbIA\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M38S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-06-04T09:27:25Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_5lS0LzUdbIA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5lS0LzUdbIA\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Elodie, Interim Executive - France: How to prepare for crisis<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5lS0LzUdbIA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5lS0LzUdbIA\/0.jpg?resize=640%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Elodie, Interim Executive - France: How to prepare for crisis\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Are you prepared to master the next crisis in your organisation? 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