Last month, Ken Banta talked with Kenneth Moch — a skilled CEO and corporate strategist who’s taken several life sciences companies from start-up to commercialization — about what it takes to lead through crisis, as part of our Dialogues series on "Leading Through Uncertainty."

One company where Ken Moch was CEO went through a very dramatic crisis a few years back, and he had a lot of interesting things to say on the subject.

I was especially struck by this observation:

Companies now need to separate their immediate response teams from their long-term planning teams, and really keep them apart. So you don’t muddle “what we’re doing right now to survive” and “this is a coalescing moment, in which we can think through what the world will look like on the other side.”

It’s a smart idea, maybe even obvious to some. But it’s the kind of insight about leadership that can too easily get lost in the tumult of the day-to-day.

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