Upheaval
by Jared Diamond
Diamond applies a crisis-therapy framework to nations: Finland, Japan, Chile, Germany, Australia. The personal-crisis checklist is as useful as the history.
Read it if…
you want a framework for national and personal crisis.
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Skip it if…
you want tighter history.
Try instead: The Gift of Fear →
Three things you will actually use
- Acknowledge the crisis.
- Selective change, not total.
- Honest self-appraisal.
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Read the twelve factors for crisis outcomes.
Our verdict
Nations in crisis.
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