Patrick Lagadec
Former Senior Research Scientist at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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Terra Incognita: Vision and action
It is a sad but inescapable fact that today’s global situation demands that we lay to rest our pre-established crisis visions and move towards creative and flexible leadership, say Emily Hough, Patrick Lagadec and Matthieu Langlois - Written by Patrick Lagadec, Emily Hough and Dr Matthieu Langlois. (Volume 15, Issue 4)
Social Media: The new frontier
Ludovic Blay and Patrick Lagadec describe how a volunteer network in France is helping the emergency authorities to embrace social media for emergency management - Written by Patrick Lagadec and Ludovic Blay. (Volume 12, Issue 2)
Struggling with ‘dark dynamics’
Our crisis management techniques cannot handle today’s unmapped and poorly understood critical challenges, says Patrick Lagadec. It is time for training to challenge leaders to cope with the unknown - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 12, Issue 1)
A practical lifeline for decision-makers
A book written by Editorial Advisory Panel Member Patrick Lagadec, based upon his ‘from the unknown’ series in CRJ, is available for free, and has already attracted widespread positive praise from Europe, the US and further afield - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 9, Issue 2)
A new approach
Patrick Lagadec interviews Marc Lerchs, head of a government taskforce looking at crisis management and rescue services, who outlines a ten-year project to prepare the Belgian public to be autonomous and more creative when faced with severe disruption - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 8, Issue 2)
Rebirth: Strategic thinking
Patrick Lagadec interviews Philippe Baumard, who explains why shaping the future, securing leadership commitment and implementing sensible tactical moves are so difficult in our micromanagement, toolbox culture - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 8, Issue 1)
Lost in transition
Patrick Lagadec introduces the feature on leadership by examining how a new era of interconnected global mega-shocks requires a different leadership mindset - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 7, Issue 4)
New challenges; new approaches
An international conference at UNESCO in Paris discussed the challenges of humanitarian diplomacy recently. Patrick Lagadec talks to Xavier Guilhou, who advised on the initiative - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 7, Issue 3)
Shifting parameters
Patrick Lagadec talks to a physicist, Benjamin Topper, about how systems have changed and how he sees the energy sector as potentially triggering a massive global crisis in the next decade - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 7, Issue 2)
New audits for new challenges
It is time to accept a disturbing reality: something is broken within our risk machinery, says Patrick Lagadec, who tells us that our preparedness audits have to change accordingly - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 7, Issue 1)
Generational gaps
Patrick Lagadec talks to Anita Chauvin about resilience after trauma, exploring how attitudes to, and preparedness for, disaster vary between the generations - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 7, Issue 1)
Mapping the way for senier executives
Numerous seminars, courses, conferences and check-lists are available to teach operational people how to ‘manage’ a crisis, but there is nothing specific for leaders or top executives. Patrick Lagadec addresses this lacuna - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 6, Issue 3)
The power of negotiation in criminal crises
Patrick Lagadec talks to Christophe Caupenne, head of negotiators in the French elite special operations force, who discusses concerns that hostage takings and sieges might escalate, and how the human dimension must take greater precedence in planning and in society - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 6, Issue 3)
Copenhagen: The lost battle
Patrick Lagadec looks at the recent UN Climate Change Conference, COP 15, saying that for a truly sustainable future, we must fi nd a shared desire to confront the realities of today, let alone those of tomorrow - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 6, Issue 2)
Society's unsung heroes
Dr Patrick Lagadec talks to Michel Séguier, who deals with societal breakdowns in his new book – Pratiques émancipatrices: Actualités de Paulo Freire - and stresses that those who have been affected should be the ones taking the initiative for change - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 6, Issue 1)
Wake-up call for the world
Dr Patrick Lagadec interviews Joshua Cooper Ramo who, in his new book, questions why we blindly follow the old course of making minor adjustments to current policies and incremental changes to institutions that are already collapsing - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 5, Issue 4)
The Magellan Initiative
Mike Granatt, Dr James Young and Dr Patrick Lagadec launch a new initiative to link people who try, at an international level, to understand and tackle emerging mega-crises - Written by Mike Granatt, Dr James Young and Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 5, Issue 2)
The financial crisis
Xavier Guilhou and Dr Patrick Lagadec discuss the recent worldwide financial turmoil and how we can prevent the next crisis from escalating - Written by Patrick Lagadec and Xavier Guilhou. (Volume 5, Issue 1)
Rapid Reflection Forces put to the reality test
Pierre Béroux, Xavier Guilhou, and Patrick Lagadec outline how the Rapid Reflection Force concept – described in CRJ in 2006 – has now proved itself as a pivotal tool for EDF’s senior management when they are confronted with risks and crises - Written by Patrick Lagadec, Xavier Guilhou and Pierre Beroux. (Volume 4, Issue 2)
Over the edge of the world
Magellan utilised novel tactics to master a great ocean and overcome a sea of ignorance. Patrick Lagadec contends that we are faced with similar challenges today, and need a new cosmology to face 21st Century crises - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 3, Issue 4)
Implementing Rapid Reflection Forces
When it comes to Rapid Reflection Forces, Électricité de France has decided to act. Pierre Béroux, Xavier Guilhou and Patrick Lagadec describe how such a force was put at the disposal of the EDF’s crisis director in two different exercises, one involving a flu pandemic, the other a nuclear crisis - Written by Pierre Beroux, Xavier Guilhou and Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 3, Issue 2)
Complexity and chaos
Much is known today, from a theoretical standpoint, about the dynamics of chaotic and complex events. Yet there is little practical application of such modern science in the field of Institutional Emergency Management, say Michel Nesterenko and Patrick Lagadec - Written by Michel Nesterenko and Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 3, Issue 1)
The borderline of chaos
Continuing CRJ’s series of discussion articles, Patrick Lagadec says that we must acquire the new aptitudes called for by the rapid changes in the world of risks and crises on every front, whether they be intellectual, psychological, managerial, political or cultural - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 2, Issue 3)
Civil disturbance: an unconventional crisis
There have been signs of discontent in urban areas in both the UK and France this year, and the emergency services are in the front line (see following pages). Just before CRJ went to press these rumblings erupted into full blown violence in France. Patrick Lagadec comments on the recent riots - Written by Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 2, Issue 1)
Ethics for media commentators
Rolling news programmes make extensive use of experts who are asked to comment upon news of a major event as information flows into the studio. This is a daunting responsbility, say Mike Granatt and Patrick Lagadec, who propose an ethical code to help protect live commentators, broadcasters, and the audience - Written by Mike Granatt and Patrick Lagadec. (Volume 2, Issue 1)
Crossing the Rubicon
This is an age of total surprise, strategic traps and operational swamps, say Dr Patrick Lagadec and Professor Pierre Carli. New global challenges mean a looming watershed in emergency response and critical care strategies - Written by Patrick Lagadec and Pierre Carli. (Volume 1, Issue 3)