The only certainty in the crisis is that big decisions will have to be made very soon.
One of them, as Stephanie Flanders has pointed out, may be that the UK has a political system that is more adept at making tough decisions in a crisis and then implementing them - and some would argue that's been proved to be true even when our first-past-the-post system delivers a coalition government.
France intervened in Mali, its former colony, last week after militants started advancing toward the capital, forcing world leaders to fast-track decisions on resolving the crisis.
If you look at your organization and how it reacted to the financial crisis, how many of the decisions made would you say really showed foresight and future planning?
"It's very distressing to see that Europe cannot make the right decisions to overcome the crisis and is again forcing the people of Portugal to emigrate, " says Ana-Maria Gomez, a socialist member of the European Parliament.
Waiting until the crisis happens will leave you making key decisions while in a panicked mode, which is never a good idea.
Youssif believes the euro will face "more problems" as a result of the political decisions made to solve the crisis in Cyprus.
The U.K. has avoided the misery suffered in parts of the euro zone, but five years into the crisis it is looking as though tough decisions are being avoided by a political elite happy to hide behind the convenient fiction that a slump caused by the biggest credit and housing bubble in the country's history is mainly cyclical.
The bank said the poor results were due to the global crisis and it regretted some of the lending decisions made.
As politicians in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy have discovered, the financial crisis is forcing countries to take desperately tough decisions, confronting problems that were ducked for many years.
He knew that sooner rather than later he would lose support because he would have to make unpopular decisions due to Venezuela's financial crisis.
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It remains the case that the Europeans have the capacity to deal with this crisis and they need to implement the very important decisions they made last week to provide a conclusive resolution to it.
"I think the debt crisis that we face requires us to make serious decisions, and it requires us to make those decisions now, " GOP House Speaker John Boehner said Friday in response to reporters' questions about his views on Medicare.
But we are finally beginning to see some of these tough decisions that we made in the midst of crisis pay off.
NATO, with well-established machinery for taking and implementing military decisions, can help their members react to a crisis in a more co-ordinated way.
So long after the social firestorms have faded away, the unanswered questions about the affected brands will lurk, subtly influencing stakeholder decisions as they await evident reactivation by the next crisis (or temper enthusiasm for a positive news bit).
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He rejected the suggestion that European leaders had done nothing substantive to address the crisis since last year's World Economic Forum, saying political decisions had to occur at their own pace.
Do you think something bolder or a more difficult set of decisions need to be taken to fully (inaudible) that crisis?
The portfolio of economic and financial security policy issues should be integrated into all major discussions between the Bush administration and the Congress -- just as it should be featured those between the United States and its allies -- in connection with upcoming consultations and decisions regarding alliance defense burden-sharing, the international debt crisis, and the U.S. budget deficit reduction.
The main reason is to explain its decisions better and restore some legitimacy with a public still seething after crisis-era bail-outs.
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This has helped me realize that quick reactionary decisions that leaders make when in the cross hairs of a financial crisis sometimes do more harm than good.
''Obviously, I didn't know he was going to die, but I could see he was in great jeopardy. vGovernor Pataki and I spoke and agreed that we'd put our governments together, which was one of the best decisions that we made and one that I highly recommend any time there's a crisis.
More than one-third of directors reported their companies had taken steps to prepare for 2013 and the possibility of an economic crisis, including reassessing corporate strategy (47%), increasing cash reserves (34%) and postponing hiring decisions (27%), the NACD said in a press release Monday.
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