We had an educational brush with uncertainty while driving home last night. My weekly commute is a 2.75 hour drive from where I am working in Canberra to our home in Merimbula. One feature of the trip is the rather steep and twisting stretch down Brown Mountain. Last night was pretty unusual, as you can […]
… resilience, 1 year on
A little over 12 months ago I got really interested in this idea of resilience, as a result I started this blog. As I enter the second year it seemed appropriate to ask myself the question. After all that reading, thinking and writing – what have I learned? Resilience is a concept, it is not a […]
… 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 […]
… distractions, disruptions and disasters
To increase our resilience we need to be able to cope with a range of events that may impact us. These things tend to exist along a continuum. Too often we overdo the “Disaster” end of the range, with the potential that our programs are seen as the “Department of Unlikely Events“. It also demeans […]
… survival of the most adaptive
This morning went I went for a walk on the beach I found a large number of dead birds. These were muttonbirds that had been washed in on the tide. This is an annual problem, as you will see if you click though to the news item linked to the picture. These little birds are migrating […]
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