Last month, the Transocean company announced “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history” and paid millions of dollars in Executive bonuses. These are the folks who built and staffed the Deepwater Horizon – and lost 9 of their own people the day it exploded. This announcement came only a few weeks ahead of […]
… learning by our own mistakes!
No matter how good we think we are, to maintain a skill or habit we need to practice it – and regularly. Once a year is probably not going to cut it. For many years I travelled extensively, and at times would have been taking an international trip at least once a month. I would […]
… ritual and resilience
Here in Australia we have just finished a 5 day weekend. This year the Easter Weekend (normally 4 days) occured at the same time as the ANZAC Day public holiday. For the benefit of international readers ANZAC Day is a national day of rememberance for those who fought and died in war. It commemorates the […]
… why we do not appear to learn from recent disasters
This is the first post in a new, ongoing series. These posts are intended to encourage people to join in discussions that are happening on other blogs and sites. All in support of one of my objectives for 2011 – to encourage community and the discussion and learning that will come from these community engagements. […]
… perception and communication of risk
Last week I was talking about the need for Sales and Marketing thinking to be applied to the risk/BC practice. To do either of these thing effectively we need the appropriate message and presentation. Too often we focus only Crisis Communication, and there are plenty who provide advice in that space. To become more resilient we need […]