“So the Stafford Beer-approved crisis strategy is – find a list of actions which could potentially stabilise the situation in a useful time frame, then pick the one which causes the least organisational damage. Bearing in mind at both stages that the option you pick will determine the way you have to behave, and that this will have consequences for you, and for the organisation. If this process doesn’t identify any viable course of action, then move to a “war footing”, and consider tradeoffs which had previously been rejected, in the knowledge that you are going to have to spend time repairing fences afterwards; if there’s still no answer, you have to resign”
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/resign-and-do-not-fail-to-do-so