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Former White House Adviser Brings the Crisis Playbook Home to the Couch
· New York time
Former White House adviser Dr. Raj Panjabi has written Safer: A Playbook, a book intended to help people face personal crises involving health, work or family conflict. His stated goal is to help readers turn fear into action. The book applies the language of preparation to situations that may arrive without the formal structures of a public emergency. A workplace problem or family conflict can demand decisions even when no one has assembled a briefing room or appointed a spokesperson. Panjabi's project is to offer readers a way to approach those moments. Its promise also places a large subject inside a compact format. A playbook suggests that an overwhelming situation can be broken into steps, though the circumstances and choices facing each reader will differ. The appeal is understandable: when a problem feels unmanageable, a plan can seem more welcoming than a blank page. The comic contrast is between the scale of official crisis management and the setting of everyday life. A living room has space for a sofa, a coffee table and perhaps a book, but rarely an entire emergency operations team. Panjabi brings the playbook to that room, where the first order of business may simply be getting everyone to sit down long enough to discuss the problem.
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