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Taking Decisive Action in a Crisis

HBR On Leadership

CHAPTER

The Importance of Working in a Mine

The case involves the CEO of Anglo-American, who has to decide whether or not to shut down a platinum mine in South Africa. The stakes are as high as they can get: 600,000 people might be dependent on what decision she makes. "I don't think there's another environment like it on earth," says author and former mining worker David Frum.

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