The concept and occurrence of crises is an intertemporal and common human phenomenon. Dealing with crises requires active human intelligence (HI) and a solid understanding of human nature. As we have written in previous posts, see for example here, the concept of HI has many benefits to give us when viewed in the appropriate historical context.

In a recent presentation of Thodoris Spiliots on Athoniam leadership and management, I had the privilige of giving a short presentation on some novel work on the topic crisis management from the works of Plutarch. Working from the sources, I suggested a bipartite level distinction of Plutarchian crisis management, with a top level on prevention, treatment and feedback of crises and a second level on foundational HI concepts, from which stem the understanding of crises and their "proper" treatment. The presentation goes through the causation of prevention-to-treatment of crises, arguing through Plutarchian precepts as to how possibly HI and its derivatives can deal with the problem.

Crisis management is a core aspect of foresight, and it is in this light that the presentation was written. More to follow as my research progresses.