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Understanding Crisis
Crisis, emergency, and problem are different situations requiring different instruments. The taxonomy, the five types, and the slow crisis nobody declares.
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Early Recognition
The signals are almost always present and almost always explained away. The obstacle is not detection but a system in which raising something costs the person who raises it.
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Crisis, Emergency, Problem
The label determines the response, and the label is usually assigned by how alarming a situation feels rather than by what it threatens. Five types, each with a different clock.