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Crisis management is essentially about limiting negative impact and maintaining trust. For many leaders, this turns out to be a challenge during crises.

A crisis often brings, feelings of insecurity and fear, especially when the crisis is manifesting itself, as it is currently, worldwide.

Will the corona pandemic lead to an economic and social crisis rivaling to the Great Depression of the 1930s? What can organizations and, especially the CEOs, do about this? The outlook is bleak.

Experience shows that after a creative phase a structural phase will follow during which the top level of management will lead in solving the crisis.

Through Stichting Nyenrode Fonds, John Baalbaki received a scholarship from the Nyenrodians in the class of 1958 to come and study at Nyenrode. He talks about leadership, perseverance and the importance of setbacks for success.

In addition to their studies, students at Nyenrode Business Universiteit can develop themselves in the area of personal leadership.

“We’ll see you tomorrow for the start of the assignment in London.” With these surprising words, Dr. Frank van Eekeren, lecturer in the Nyenrode Sports Leadership Program, concluded his lecture in Breukelen last Monday and gave the participants their first assignment. At 8:00 the next morning, the participants were standing at the Olympic London Stadium in Stratford to begin working on their case study.

On October 2nd, India celebrates the 146th birthday of its great leader Mahatma Gandhi, a champion of India’s independence after the second world war. Although the culture of India is very different from that of the Netherlands, in his policy we can nonetheless find important fundamental values that are familiar to Nyenrodians as well.