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Preface

Do you want to decrease your stress levels, limit trauma, and avoid agony when faced with a disaster at work? We’re not talking about the garden-variety disaster you may encounter weekly, such as your computer crashing, your unreasonable deadline being moved up, or your having to fire an employee who doesn’t fit with your culture. No, we’re talking about dealing with such disasters as floods, murders, riots, bombings, earthquakes, hurricanes, pandemics, and CEO deaths and malfeasance.

Think this doesn’t apply to you? Think again. We are anything but disaster fans, junkies, or authorities, but over our working careers we’ve personally experienced more workplace disasters than we ever imagined possible. In writing this book, we also ...

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