When everything seems to be falling apart, the leader must make it a priority to keep it together. If your team senses fear and panic in you, then they will lose hope. On the other hand, if you remain calm and confident, then everyone will try to help make things better. Great leaders are at their best when things are at their worst. This post by John Maxwell is excellent:
“I’ve often said there are no two consecutive good days in the life of a leader. It’s a statement designed to get people’s attention, and it usually does—I often have a lot of people wanting to follow up with me after I’ve shared it during a teaching. What it boils down to is this: the more you grow in leadership, the more challenging and difficult the decisions you face. Those decisions often involve things with immediate or concrete solutions, but sometimes, they involve things that aren’t as cut and dried.”