Business Continuity Awareness Week is underway for 2012 – if you had not realised this, you can find the website here. The major event of Day 1 for me was the “C-level Water Cooler Meeting” Webinar. This was a session intended to introduce a new initiative of the BCI Partnership. It would appear to be […]
… perception risk (where you stand determines what you see)
In the past week I have read two different reports on the major risks facing the international business community in 2012. The two reports are; World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2012 Business Continuity Institute’s Horizon Scan 2012 The two reports reflect some different risks, and certainly convey very different scopes and perspectives. This should not […]
… planning and preparedness are not the same thing
There is a discussion on the ‘BCM & Risk’ LinkedIn Group (sorry, but this is a members only forum – free to join), where the original question posed was; “Do you have a plan or are you being prepared? do you reckon these are two side of the coin or same but different words or […]
… brevity and bravado
The final post in the Civil War series, and for this week of posts focussed on learnings from the military and military history. on 19 November, 1863 the Soldier’s National Cemetry was consecrated at Gettysburg, PA. The principle speech was intended to be the Oration by Edward Everett – lasting 2 hours. Everett was followed […]
… lessons in Adaptive Leadership
Yesterday I reviewed a couple of articles from Harvard Business Review (November 2010) on “Leadership Lessons from the Military“. Today’s post will finish the job by reviewing the article “Four lessons in Adaptive Leadership” [p86] by Michael Useem from Wharton Business School. Useem and his colleagues at Wharton have incorporated military leadership principles into the […]
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