Content about RMS Titanic

December 11, 2012
Learning From the Titanic: Business Lessons on Crisis Management

The Titanic can be used as an analogy to business. It started with pomp and potential. But it turned into a lot of what-ifs and missed opportunities. So, too, is the case with business. Running a profitable and efficient organization means effectively remediating damage before it accrues by utilizing processes and methodologies for researching, planning, executing, and benchmarking activities.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic caused many people to reflect on the glamour that was lost and the opportunities that faded.

I think the Titanic can be used as an analogy to business. The Titanic was a monument to human folly and arrogance. It started with pomp and potential. But it turned into a lot of what-ifs and missed opportunities. So, too, is the case with business, which should learn the lessons from the economic downturn and corporate scandals.

April 17, 2012
3 Leadership Lessons from the Titanic

In the end, it was neither weak strategy, nor weak structure, nor weak technology that caused the Titanicto hit an iceberg and 1,500 people to die; it was weak leadership, says Jocelyn R. Davis, author of “Leadership Failures Sink Unsinkable Ship.” “It was leaders who counted too much on impressive strategy, structure, and technology and so failed to focus on what could have actually made the journey safe and successful—their people.”

By Jocelyn R. Davis, EVP, Research and Development, The Forum Corporation

At 11:40 on the bitterly cold night of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the Titanic’s lookout, Frederick Fleet, clanged the warning bell three times from the crow’s nest of the luxury ocean liner and picked up the phone to the bridge. The following conversation ensued:

“What did you see?”

“Iceberg right ahead.”

“Thank you.”