Navigating Crises with the Doomsday Mentality

How companies can plan and react better by deploying catastrophic thinking

Doomsday mentality is a negative mindset—that everything will fail and its extremities similar to nihilism. Moderation is still needed (as with everything we do). Companies that strike a balance in deploying positive and negative mindsets would find themselves being more nimble and agile.

That means being able to navigate crises like swimming through sti…