Lead with Courage
We often think of courage in its most valorous incarnations — on the battlefield, in the grips of war, when the stakes are unspeakably high. Matters of life and death require boundless courage and we ...
25 Maj 202111min
Navigating Chaos, The Time for You to Lead
While we are currently facing unprecedented levels of chaos in business, chaos itself is not a new phenomenon. In fact, chaos is inherent in running a business. That's because running a team comes w...
18 Maj 202113min
Deliberate Practice: Changing the Way We Look at Business Continuity?
As we see the field and job of the Emergency and Business Continuity Manager move to a profession, how do we get there? Deliberate practice is what turns amateurs into professionals. Deliberate practi...
11 Maj 202115min
How to Improve Emergency Management Training with Gamification
Emergency response exercises often have a high degree of interaction between the elements that have to be learned. This increases the natural complexity of the information that must be understood and ...
4 Maj 20219min
Gamification: Developing Your Team for Disaster and Crisis Training
Today the role of the emergency and business continuity manager includes outreach to all of the stakeholders in the organization and the community. Sharing information in the past was static, gamifi...
27 Apr 202112min
Leadership is a core skill you need to be successful in emergency and Business Continuity management
Leadership is a core skill you need to be successful in emergency and business continuity management. Your leadership is critical during crises because you are more visible to the public and under pre...
13 Apr 202115min
Occam’s Razor and Business Continuity
William of Occam was an English Franciscan friar and philosopher who lived from 1287 to 1347. Perhaps his most famous contribution to philosophy (and a variety of other fields, such as mathematics, bi...
6 Apr 202112min
Using Decision Making Fast and Accurate, OODA Loop and the POP-DOC Loop
John Boyd created a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations called the OODA Loop. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, decidin...
30 Mars 20219min
