Managing by crisis

As a last resort, when people are not responding to your request or appeal to their common sense, leaders in society create a crisis to which people, more often than not, then react to with speed. This approach is guaranteed to work, but it is a form of cowering from using the more logic approach of selling your vision and allowing people to choose to buy it or not. You will be surprised to find that crisis management is used more often than you think - because it works.People are quick to respond to trying circumstances - that is why leaders are always tempted to create them to influence behaviour.