A Learning experience for us all: How NOT To manage a Crisis

[cbelt3]

Tiger speaks

An unfortunate story, but assuredly not unknown. And if it had been handled better, the amount of speculation would have been much less.

A theoretical same day release:

"I am slightly injured, but do not expect it to affect my ability to play golf. I am taking the next month off to allow me time to recover. The accident was caused by my careless driving. My wife and I are going through a difficult time, and ask that you respect our privacy at this time."

A theoretical later in the week release:

"Thank you all for you concerns and well wishes. At this time I would like to publicly apologize to my wife for being briefly unfaithful to her several years ago. We are working through this issue, and I hope that she is willing to forgive me. She is a wonderful wife and mother to our two beautiful children, and I am blessed every day with such a wonderful life partner."

[Blankity Blank]

Except it's not a "crisis'.

It's a public figure dealing with a strictly personal problem of his own making, a problem that is about as pedestrian as it comes in our society, in a celebrity and scandal obsessed culture with a media that far too often thinks "news" is spelled with a dollar sign and is determined pirmarily by what will get the most ratings.

There is not a single thing crisislike about the whole situation. Most of the real lessons to be learned will fall on deaf ears as usual.

[pRICE cUBE]

This is why I would like to be rich but not rich & famous.

[Seacrest]

"Fah Shizzle!"

(I always wanted to say that.)

[ztirffritz]

I'd buy all the newspapers and media outlets I could so that my name never appeared in them.

[davester]

The crisis is that there are all these 24/7 news outlets and no real news to broadcast. Things were much better when the news came twice a day (i.e. the morning newspaper and 6 o'clock news.

[Grumpyguy]

The Mrs. handle the crisis and more than likely scared Tiger straight.

Maybe Tiger is one of the few left in this nation that still feels shame and he will act accordingly.

But if he is like most Americans, it was just a blip in the road and nothing to be concerned about.

[pRICE cUBE]

He is on the path to possibly losing half of an estimated 1 billion dollars and family ripped apart, I would call it a crisis.

[AlphaDog]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
He is on the path to possibly lose half of an estimated 1 billion dollars and and family ripped apart, I would call it a crisis.

And who brought on that passel of poo?

[Blankity Blank]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
He is on the path to possibly lose half of an estimated 1 billion dollars and and family ripped apart, I would call it a crisis.

"Only" having half a billion dollars is a crisis? Nice world to live in.

Having to work your a** off to own up to, take responsibility for and try to rectify the results of a personal failing a crisis? That's just real life. It does, however, equal having your tackle in a wringer.