The Small Business Crisis Playbook: Survive and Recover Without a Department

No crisis department. No problem. You run a company of five, fifty or two hundred and fifty people. You built most of it yourself. There is no risk manager, no continuity plan on a shelf, and the phrase "crisis team" has never been spoken in your building except as a joke - until the day a ransomware note appears on every screen, the flood reaches the server cabinet, or your biggest customer calls to cancel. On that day, the crisis team is you. Erik F.A. Gmelig Meyling has spent twenty years inside crisis rooms, most of them large - and six years running his own company in Ukraine through the outbreak of full-scale war. The Small Business Crisis Playbook takes everything that actually matters from that experience and compresses it into eight chapters built for owners who have no department, no retainer with a consultancy, and no patience for a seventy-page plan. Inside, you will build: - A one-page crisis plan you can fill in this week - the book's working centre of gravity, not a template you file and forget- The cash-runway math that predicts, with real data, which small firms survive an interruption and which do not- An insurance read-through that catches the gaps most owners discover only when it is too late to fix them- Message scripts for staff, customers and the one journalist who calls, so the first hours are not improvised- An SME-scale cyber chapter - backups, ransomware, who to call - sized for a firm with no IT department- A first-day, first-week, first-month checklist that turns panic into a sequence of decisions >Your business does not need a crisis department. It needs this afternoon. Scroll up and get the plan started.