Sentences with phrase «for better crisis»
It calls for better crisis management and contingency planning (including early warning systems and evacuation), reconstruction planning, and international collaboration, especially when poor countries are affected (or when small countries are hit, since for them it can be the entire national economy that is stalled by a flood, making them unable to manage the recovery and reconstruction).
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A well thought - out crisis - management plan is essential for every business to have in today's world.
Wilson ignited a public relations crisis for the company in November by suggesting to Bloomberg TV that Lululemon's yoga pants don't work well for some women.
When we bought our first plane, air travel was considered very expensive, extremely frustrating and awfully dull; more recently, the banking sector has been held responsible for the financial crisis and global recession, so we used our reputation to instil some trust and, as Virgin Money's slogan says, «Make everyone better off.»
«Operating multiple brands allows you to make better long - term decisions for each brand,» he says, without the pressure to take shortcuts to resolve short - term crises.
In the depths of the financial crisis in 2011, Brian Moynihan — who'd been the unexpected pick for CEO a year before — predicted that Bank of America would soon be earning well over $ 20 billion a year.
The global economy is set for one of its best years since the financial crisis, but recession risks are increasing, said UBS Chairman Axel Weber.
In the absence of decisive, quick action to tackle this slow - motion crisis, the best - case scenario for the next few years is that America becomes a much riskier place to do business.
Even better, free your IT team from crisis control for a day or two and send them to a conference where they can talk shop.
All along, he preached an idea that seems only more poignant today, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis: that capital can be corralled to do society good while it does well for itself.
Well aware voters punished the Democrats for their perceived inability to govern, Abe's team is taking pains to act quickly when crises erupt, such as this month's North Korean nuclear test.
«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.
The terms and prices of variable annuities were much better before the financial crisis, but the rationale for a contract that guarantees an income stream while allowing for some participation in potential growth in the investment markets remains intact, according to Mark Cortazzo, senior partner at Macro Consulting Group.
Rather, it means only that, in a crisis, for a limited period of time, the ability of the employee to do some essential functions is better than none.
I believe that the best leaders never waste a good crisis because it affords you the chance to make the kind of large wholesale changes you organization needs that you've also been putting off for too long.
Patagonia, for instance, aspires to «build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.»
He maintains the government's actions during the crisis saved the country and contends his prosecution is an attempt to discredit his Independence Party, which ruled for well over a decade.
Apart from a few brilliant authors and composers, not much good has ever come out of Russia; and unless there is a sharp improvement in the outlook for that country it could drag the rest of the world, including Australia, into a crisis to rival that of 2008.
Either way, somehow eight years after the financial crisis, with the economy on the best footing it has been in years, the uncertainty that is out there over a Trump Presidency just doesn't seem so bad, at least for one day.
In the aftermath of this crisis Jackson suffered with depression for the first time in his life and went searching for a better way.
In other words, the combination of a reach for yield, tax incentives, and the belief that default is impossible all contributed to a debt crisis that is likely not going to end well.
As for who will succeed Carney, there are many good reasons for thinking that Tiff Macklem, the senior deputy governor, is a prohibitive favourite: he established a strong reputation as he rose through the ranks at the Bank, and he played a crucial role during his short stint at the the Department of Finance during the financial crisis.
Semiconductor stocks are breaking down after posting their best year since the financial crisis, and this has negative implications for the broader technology sector.
The crisis is over for now, but there are four big questions for which we don't yet have good answers.
He touted Canada's resilience during the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis, but said that while Canada fared better than most, the sharp decline in demand for the country's goods and services that followed the downturn still affected its economy.
This isn't the first time Zuckerberg has been criticized for mishandling bad press, so I for one was left to wonder, what are some of the best ways CEOs have handled publicity crises?
Tasked with avoiding a new financial crisis, the ECB is putting pressure on banks to clean up their balance sheets from unpaid loans inherited from the last recession, a problem for most countries in the south of Europe, as well as Slovenia and Ireland.
As for paying for the nation's crisis, well, the bill is just too big.
For McNabb, a disciple of Collins and a close reader of his leadership bibles Good to Great and Built to Last, the calm after the financial crisis seemed like the perfect time «to challenge everything we were doing.»
«The company, at some point, will reach a crisis where it's really going to be a make or break for the business, and if they handle it well, it becomes a star,» Meeks said.
Blankfein served in Goldman's top spot for more than 12 years and his tenure features both the 2008 financial crisis (and multimillion - dollar settlements with the government over allegations that Goldman had lied to investors) as well as all - time highs for its stock price.
He'd best prepare for a frightful year: Germany will likely continue its gradualist approach to combating the sovereign debt crisis — even if it means taking the rest of the continent to the brink and beyond.
«We found evidence both for the prominence of the quarter - life crisis and for the rise in well - being that follows it.
Still, in the wake of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, he started thinking that the way of the future for financial institutions might be a different kind of business model — one that emphasized social good as much as turning a profit.
«When crises drive people into the arms of God,» Porter notes, «they embrace Him for the insurance as well as the spiritual solace.»
Blankfein, who underwent chemotherapy for cancer more than two years ago, led the firm through the financial crisis in better shape than most rivals, and the company capitalized with record trading revenues.
It's better for leaders to be proactive and take the necessary steps to navigate crises and make solid decisions that will help move their organizations in a new direction.
The documents reveal that JPMorgan, as well as two firms the bank acquired during the credit crisis, Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns, flouted quality controls and ignored problems, sometimes hiding them entirely, in a quest for profit.
This book is the best treatment we have of the historical dimensions of our current health care crisis and will prove to be an indispensable resource for historians and policy makers.»
@ Needing - Some - Truth Farmland is the suggestion for best thing to own in a crisis.
Finally, there might have been less need for UMP were it not for the restrictive measures that many of the EMDEs had used to control capital flows and exchange rate movements beginning well before the crisis.
For the better part of a decade, average U.S. commercial real - estate prices have climbed relentlessly, not only recovering all the value lost during the 2008 - 09 financial crisis, but also far exceeding the pre-crash heights of 2006.
The financial crisis of 2008 - 09 and the recession it caused didn't do much for the reputations of many policy makers around the world, but they've been quite good for the careers of Stephen Harper and Mark Carney:
The good news is that the more than 5,500 leaders surveyed worldwide for this year's Global Opportunity Report sees great new market potential in addressing the risk of the global food crisis.
She has previously worked as a public health educator and crisis counselor at Washington, DC nonprofits, and as an ESL teacher for primary school & university students, as well as working adults.
Even if such a bailout were to occur, investors should be careful what they wish for — virtually none of the major bailouts in the financial crisis ended well for shareholders who usually found themselves diluted out of existence or with their stock outright cancelled.
Still, it was an unexpected fig leaf from a man who last year traded barbs with Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney over his calls for better bank regulation in order to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis.
As a result of higher exchange rate volatility, both during the crisis and subsequently, market participants and policymakers became keenly aware of the need for better exchange rate risk management.
For his part, Buffett believes that, as a result of the law, the U.S. is less well equipped to handle another financial crisis, as Dodd - Frank stripped the Fed of its ability to act.
At the same time, Tide's consumer perception is acting like most brands undergoing a major crises: after falling for nearly three months and hitting bottom on February 20th, perception climbed back up until it hit a ceiling on March 30th, still remaining well short of where it was before the fad took off.