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 […]
… 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 […]
… 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 […]
… Santa frustrated by Social Media
A large Australian retailer has been running a radio advertising program promoting Family Portraits with the following question; “Do you want to give Santa a lap dance?” Before people go running out to apply for Santa jobs, the reference to lap dances has been pulled from the ad. Here is a link to some press […]
… crisis du jour
What constitutes a crisis at your company? Over the years I have seen many companies struggle with this definition. There were times, when I was younger and more energetic, that I thought that having to define what constituted a crisis was an essential part of establishing a working BC and Crisis Management capability. In most […]