You can’t plan for a crisis, but can you plan for high performance during a crisis.  Let’s take a recent example that illustrates this:

US Airway pilot Chesley Sullenberger was praised as a hero of supreme skill and ability.   A Los Angeles Times article explored this incident from a neuroscience perspective, asking what allows people “…to make effective decisions in harrowing circumstances?  How do they keep their fear from turning into panic?”  The article goes on to say, “Pilots have a nam