Zombie Apocalypse can prepare us for real crisis.

“Competition for resources, kidnap and ransom, cannibalism, revenge killing, and all-out war”: the pandemic has provoked some outrageous, atavistic behaviour, but we have at least resisted, so far, the temptation to eat each other. As they prepare for a possible second wave of coronavirus, though, leaders should study dysfunctional group dynamics, suggests Markus Hallgren of Umea University, if only to prepare against any future slide into disorder. Whereas plenty has been written about “zombie jobs” and “zombie companies”, he and co-author David Buchanan of Cranfield University examined how we might respond to zombies themselves.