Excellence Under Pressure: What Organizations Reveal When It Really Matters with Gerard Murphy

About this episode

The episode discusses how organizations reveal their true nature under pressure with insights from Gerard Murphy's extensive experience in crisis leadership.

Pressure does not make an organization better or worse. It exposes what is already there. In this episode I sit down with Gerard Murphy, drawing on decades of policing, safeguarding, crisis leadership, and international security advisory work, to get brutally practical about organizational maturity and excellence under pressure. When the environment turns time critical and reputationally sensitive, do you get clearer or do you get busier, noisier, and less honest? We dig into the hidden mech...

People in this episode

Host: Nancy Nouaimeh

Guest: Gerard Murphy

Topics covered

• organizational maturity
• excellence under pressure
• crisis leadership
• policing
• safeguarding
• international security

Keywords

• organizational excellence
• pressure management
• crisis response
• leadership
• security advisory

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