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. 2020 May 29:7–21. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44955-1_2

Table 2.2.

Differences between crisis leadership and crisis management (Author’s creation)

Crisis leadership Crisis management
Long view of events Short view of events
Proactive Reactive
Learn during a crisis and from errors No learning from a crisis. Respond and move on
Plan for many different potential crises One plan for all crises
Communicate to stakeholders the wide range of potential crisis Communicate the “response plan”
Involve others in the plan and the response Drive the response when the time comes