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What a Difference a Disaster Makes: The Role of Vicarious Leadership Learning in Differential Responses to Post-Katrina Hurricanes

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  • Antoinette Phillips
  • Julie Nunenmacher
  • Bobbie Schnepf
  • Carl Phillips
  • Sam Cappel

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August 2005 and the ensuing months saw a natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and a leadership disaster surrounding governmental and institutional response to the storm¡¯s aftermath. An event of such monumental proportions would predictably offer numerous challenges; however, the extent of the weaknesses in preparedness and response revealed by Katrina was nothing short of astounding. Lessons learned from this experience were quickly incorporated into many organizations¡¯ planning, readiness, and response activities. This manuscript discusses salient aspects of less-than-optimal responses to Katrina¡¯s effects and explores changes in and different programs for coordinating subsequent disaster response. Interestingly, many such changes were undertaken by units not directly impacted by or involved in Katrina¡¯s aftermath. The authors propose the term ¡°vicarious leadership learning¡± to describe this phenomenon. Examples from a variety of organizations are presented, and the benefits of vicarious leadership learning are discussed.

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  • Antoinette Phillips & Julie Nunenmacher & Bobbie Schnepf & Carl Phillips & Sam Cappel, 2013. "What a Difference a Disaster Makes: The Role of Vicarious Leadership Learning in Differential Responses to Post-Katrina Hurricanes," Business and Management Horizons, Macrothink Institute, vol. 1(2), pages 94-106, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mth:bmh888:v:1:y:2013:i:2:p:94-106
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