An etiquette guide to holding your nerve
Rudyard Kipling famously advised keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. This is easier said than done when everyone has good reason to be losing their heads, especially when that reason is indeed you. This is likely to be the case if you are supposed to be in charge, since your failure to inspire anything but panic in your followers suggests you have been promoted beyond your natural level of competence.
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