Table of Contents for Crisis-Ready Teams

Crisis-Ready Teams
Data-Driven Lessons from Aviation, Nuclear Power, Emergency Medicine, and Mine Rescue
Mary J. Waller and Seth A. Kaplan

Introduction: Teams and Crises

1.How Teams Respond to Rare, Catastrophic Events: An Overview

Part I: Setting the Tone for a Crisis Response

2.Tone, Timing, and Patterns

3.How Trauma Teams and Flight Crews Set the Tone

4.How Seaport and MBA Crisis Teams Share Information and Avoid Solution Fixation

Part II: Adapting on the Fly

5.To Adapt With Routines or Without Them?

6.How Flight Crews and Nuclear Plant Crews Adapt During Crises

7.How the NEADS Team Adapted to the Nonsensical on 9/11

Part III: Finding the Balance

8.Team Leaders & Tensions

9.How Nuclear Plant Crews Balance Routine and Improvisation

10.How Flight Crews Balance Planning and Acting

11.How Mine Rescue Teams Go Slow to Go Fast

Part IV: Helping Teams Become Crisis-Ready

12.Designing High-Performing Teams for Crises

13.Training High-Performing Teams for Crises

14.Enhancing Team Resilience for Crises

15.The Ethics of Crisis Preparation

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