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Crisis management · Customer and stakeholder communication

Your company is announcing layoffs of 15% of staff tomorrow. Walk me through how you'd sequence the communication across employees, media, investors, and customers — and what you'd do if it leaks tonight.

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Sequencing is the whole game: employees hear it from us first, in their own meeting, before any external audience.

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