Boomer Esiason, Frank Supovitz, Adam Wald and Mike Abrams
What to Do When Things Go Wrong
Talks at Google, 2019
Aperçu
To avoid a crisis, run events or projects in five steps: imagine, prepare, execute, respond and evaluate.
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Frank Supovitz, award-winning event producer, Adam Wald, NBC’s director of production, operations and management, and Julius “Boomer” Esiason, former NFL quarterback and famed sportscaster, can’t hide when they make mistakes. They work in public in tough arenas, like the Super Bowl. In their Talks at Google video with host Mike Abrams, they share lessons from memorable mishaps, offering useful examples of how to regain control when a situation suddenly goes wrong and how to keep mistakes from recurring. Supovitz emphasizes five steps from his book, What to Do When Things Go Wrong: imagine, prepare, execute, respond and evaluate.
Summary
About the Speakers
Talks at Google host Mike Abrams interviewed Frank Supovitz, CEO of Fast Traffic Events & Entertainment and author of What to Do When Things Go Wrong, sportscaster Julius “Boomer” Esiason, a former NFL quarterback, and Adam Wald, director of production, operations and management at NBC Universal and NBC News.
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