- Employee layoffs/downsizings
- Lawsuits
- Poor financial performance
- Discrimination/harassment claims or charges
- Negative media coverage
- Damaging rumors
- Product defects or quality problems
- Violent threats or actions by a disgruntled current or former employee
- On-the-job incidents
- The sudden death of a senior executive
- Loss of significant business from one or more customers
- Government probes or fines
- Natural disasters
- Boycotts, pickets or strikes
- A failure in technology
Source: The Crisis Counselor
This article was originally published in the November 1998 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Danger Zone.
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