What ‘House of Dynamite’ Teaches About Crisis Leadership
Crisis Management

What ‘House of Dynamite’ Teaches About Crisis Leadership

Thomas Magee | November 18, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article discusses key plot points from Netflix’s “House of Dynamite” and includes spoilers. *** https://youtu.be/_wpw2QHJNco?si=W-swn3RvR7TWrpQU “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” — John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy” Most people – especially continuity professionals – know the truth of that lyric because they have lived it. Who hasn’t buried themselves in a project, only to be redirected elsewhere to put out a fire! Often that other fire occurred under circumstances no one thought possible. People call that a black swan event. The impossible somehow took life and became possible. That term came out in…
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