“Pressure can also make managers act out of character. Degrees of panic will cause a normally good manager to lose self-confidence and focus. Under stress, even a good plan can be abandoned.”

—  Wheeler L. Baker

Source: Crisis Management: A Model For Managers (1993), p. 16

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President of Hargrave Military Academy 1938

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