# Ego-Induced Crises By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2024-03-01 Natural disasters are crises. Organizations contend with crises and often overcome them. These crises are consequential and rare. Within organizations, people are forced to contend with the much more frequent ego-induced crisis. These crises are due to the ego of those within the organization's upper echelon. They emerge primarily due to timing. The person in charge wants something "now," so people are scrambling in panic to address the emergent concern immediately. These crises could be entirely avoidable. The urgency is almost always a result of desire not circumstance. It is not that the decision being considered is all that time-sensitive; it is that the person in the upper echelon wants to focus on it now. In the absence of the required information, that person would likely focus on something else, and the organization would persist. Ego-induced crises are increasingly annoying when nothing is done after the rapid response. It is as if the person in charge creates the ego-induced crises as a flex to show all those within the organization how much power one holds. A peaceful workplace will only be achieved once its leaders get over themselves. #### Related Items [[Crisis]] [[Ego]] [[Organization]] [[Executives]] [[Management]] [[Work]]