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If you want a perfect illustration of how easily a crisis can materialize in your organization, look no further than Monty Python’s famous skit explaining that “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

When most people think of the Spanish Inquisition, they typically think of torture (or Monty Python), and for good reason. Between 1478 and 1834, Catholic monarchs in Spain and Spanish territories ...

There’s a silly Monty Python sketch from a half-century ago that some of you surely remember, and it spawned an enduring meme — though we didn’t have that name for it then. In the scene, a hapless ...