Lessons and insights abound this week, thanks to Facebook, Scott Morrison and the toxic culture in the Australian Parliament.

A crisis is always a ‘make it or break it’ moment, and one of the biggest moments, globally, is for law enforcement. Either anti-money laundering legislation has teeth, or it doesn’t. Either governments have the will and the intelligence to fight money laundering, or they don’t.

How well are organisations preparing for the post-pandemic world? What are the essential ingredients that will truly make a difference? Very recent research shows that igniting individual purpose in times of crisis is critical. Indeed, it could the very ‘X’ factor that proves the difference between survival, even thriving, or disaster.

The last big thing informs the next big thing.

Thanks to tennis super star, Novak Djokovic who has made headlines this week after being disqualified from the US Open, we have some very timely reminders, indeed truisms, what happens in a crisis.

Is the CEO the most appropriate spokesperson in a crisis? After all, the CEO should be the most prized communication asset at a company’s disposal. But who steps in when that ‘prized’ asset is ‘liquidated’?

Big names, big crisis. AMP and RIO Tinto are both in the headlines this week – for very different reasons, but bad ones nonetheless.

Culture is the make it or break it moment in a crisis.