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An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind?

In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily. Instead, she offers us a new framework to anticipate the “devil’s” inevitable return, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It’s no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when it does.

Filled with personal anecdotes and real-life examples from natural disasters like the California wildfires to man-made ones like the Boeing 737 MAX crisis, The Devil Never Sleeps is a guide for governments, businesses, and individuals alike on how to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe.

ISBN-13: 9781541700093

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Publication Date: 03-29-2022

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 9.30(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.00(d)

Juliette Kayyem is the Robert and Renee Belfer Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she is faculty director of the Homeland Security Project and the Security and Global Health Project. She has spent over twenty years managing complex policy initiatives and organizing government responses to major crises in both state and federal government. She is a regular contributor to the Atlantic magazine, and a commentator on CNN.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Introduction: What's in a Name? 8

Chapter 1 Assume the Boom 36

Chapter 2 What's the Word? 54

Chapter 3 Unity of Effort 79

Chapter 4 Avoid the Last Line of Defense Trap 94

Chapter 5 Stop the Bleed 109

Chapter 6 The Way We Were 124

Chapter 7 The Near Miss Fallacy 141

Chapter 8 Listen to the Dead 154

Conclusion: Where to Begin if It Never Ends 169

Epilogue 184

Acknowledgments 189

Notes 193

Index 211