While not a completely rational reaction, the dominant coalition will want to manage crises they can resolve successfully. A crisis leads stakeholders to question the dominant coalition's competence. Successful crisis management restores the perception of the dominant coalition's competence, while failure erodes it (Dutton, 1986: Pearson & Clair, 1998). Hence, top management prefers crises it can feel comfortable with. The same holds true for prodromes. Any Dilbert cartoon reminds us that the organizational world does not run on pure logic.