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Companies that do not actively practice, study, and plan for crisis communications - as well, of course, crisis management - are doomed to fail when a crisis befalls them. Crises are, in a word, inevitable, and those macho companies that think, it can't happen here, or if it does, I can handle it, will suffer the hardest failures.

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