Made in Crises

About the Book

In Chinese, the character for the word crisis is made up of two symbols, , danger and opportunity. A crisis is an ultimate test a leader can endure as while it swiftly reveals a leader’s capabilities and strengths; it can also expose the underlying weak spots. The unpredictable, dramatic, and highly charged events surrounding a crisis can profoundly affect the people in an organisation and threaten its very existence. A crisis is a condition of instability in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change. Most of us are ordinary people until a crisis finds us. It is an interesting study of how various crises inspired great leadership icons and how these symbols of prominence stirred a distinct set of events. Crises bring with them opportunities for the leaders to stretch, embrace, and evolve new behaviors, solutions, and attitudes. Like every seriously committed business leaders of today, if you too are overwhelmed what the world experienced in 2020 in the form of Coronavirus pandemic and searching for a new growth trail for your company and have not yet traced out a trajectory towards it, this book is our gift to you. This ‘mother of crises,’ caused a series of unthinkable events; millions got infected in the first world, hundreds of thousands died in the most advanced clinical setting, thousands of billions were lost in the bloodbath in the stock market, capitalism embraced socialism, and nuclear-armed global economies shuddered like a house of cards in the face of the pandemic. And mighty leaders, business and political, crumbled like Icarus, the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, whose waxen wings melted when he flew too close to the sun.

About the Author

Qaiser Abbas: Qaiser shot to fame by his blockbuster book ‘Tick Tick Dollar.’ Qaiser is a living example of overcoming adversity and turning dreams into reality and has touched the lives of millions around the globe. A Business Psychologist by education, Qaiser Abbas is an Award-Winning Leadership Coach, Motivational Speaker, and the author of 10 bestselling books, including ‘Power of Teams. In his 20 years journey as Leadership Coach, Qaiser has had the privilege to coach C.E.O.s, business leaders, celebrities and superstars of sports, movies, and media. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies like Toyota, GE, Nestle, Philips, Total, Schlumberger, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Abbott, and Reckitt-Benckiser. Apart from coaching and training leaders in the world’s top MNCs, World Bank, WHO, and US Embassy, Qaiser is making a massive contribution to society through ‘Possibilities Schools’ and ‘My First Bike’ movement. His 100% books proceeds support out-of-school children’s education. To know more about him, you can visit www.qaiserabbas.org

Arif Anis: Arif Anis is a globally known thought leader and author of the bestseller I’MPOSSIBLE and ‘Follow Your Dreams’. As a celebrated human capital expert, Anis has coached top corporate leaders, heads of states, movie stars, and CEOs. Many of his coaching and consulting clients come from Fortune 500 and FTSE100 companies, including governments and multilateral organisations. Arif Anis was recently voted ‘Brain of the Year’ by Tony Buzan’s Brain Trust in November 2020. Anis was named ‘the Global Man of The Year’ in 2019, by Global Man Magazine. The 2018 edition of Power100 British Parliamentary Review listed Arif Anis among the 100 most influential trailblazers in Europe. Anis supports H.R.H. Prince of Wales’s The British Asian Trust. Anis co-founded One Million Meals and is a trustee of the world’s largest interest-free microfinance loan provider Akhuwat. Anis’s initiatives have been featured at BBC, ITV, Sky, CNBC, The Telegraph, Yahoo, and many other global platforms.www.arifanis.com