Manufactured Crisis

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Strategy

Foundational Lexiconfake emergency
Executive Parlanceorchestrated urgency
Scholarly Discoursesynthetic exigency
Babel ZenithShock Doctrine
Origin: Naomi Klein

Etymology & Meaning

Using crises to push through otherwise impossible changes.

In the Boardroom

Using a market crash to restructure union contracts.

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