When Lives Are At Stake: Crucial Judgments & Decisions in Handling Crisis Situations (What's Lacking Among Some Philippine Disaster Response Managers)

Crisis managers get all the support, trainings and equipment to prepare them to handle emergency situations, like in the case of disaster response and rescue operations. Many become like what members of Police-SWAT Teams are: highly skilled with all kinds of credentials to deal with special situations.

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To come...
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But then all sorts of mistakes (not a few can be stupid ones) and all kinds of failures, even tragedies (worse than what an operation intended to remedy for example) can result from some special operations carried out by these high-trained managers & operatives. Why?
Among a myriad of factors within and beyond the controls or knowledge of us human beings, there are a few simple ones: like trainers failing to inculcate the right mindsets, values and sense of purpose among these managers and operatives.

One may know exactly what to do and how to do it, but when confronted with a life and death situation for example, decisions hinged heavily on one's mindsets more than one's abilities and the operation's objectives and mission. I'll give a few examples... (the rest of the article not yet uploaded due to sensitivity of or controversy about some of the examples and we have yet to decide on what to publish)