%0 Journal Article %T Crisis Management: Challenge or Opportunity for Public and Private Managers Face Economic Disaster %A Lucean MIHALCEA %J Risk in Contemporary Economy %D 2012 %I Dunarea de Jos University of Galati %X Successful managers find ways to overcome situations of uncertainty. The strategies adopted are based on a series of simplistic reasoning such as analogy, taking into account the ideas of experts, rigorous debate and experimentation. Napoleon Bonaparte said that "there is nothing more important and more valuable than being able to make decisions." Business leaders today must deal with an avalanche of ambiguity, it must decide on the future of the company. I intend to expose some successful methods by which top managers were able to transform into opportunities, challenges of economic crisis. %K management %K leadership %K opportunities %K crisis %U http://www.rce.feaa.ugal.ro/sites/default/files/Mihalcea.pdf