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7 Ways to Decrease Risk and Increase Resilience With Employees
Innovation comes with new challenges. As employees are increasingly working remotely, the risk of cyber-attacks continues to rise. Prepare for future workforce trends by decreasing risk and increasing resilience of employees. Global workforce trends are [...]
Resilience Becomes the New Objective for BC Professionals in Spain
Resilience is probably the word of 2020, in all aspects of life. Even Katy Perry (in collaboration with the Spanish singer Aitana) recently released a song called “Resilient”. In Spanish, resilience is not a broadly [...]
Emergency Preparedness Matters! Take Steps to Ensure 72-Hour Readiness
Since the mid 80s, the emergency management community has preached a clear and consistent message: Prepare businesses, schools and homes to be self sufficient for 3 days. Way back then, some even suggested 7 days! [...]
Publisher Celebrates 35th Anniversary as Pioneer in Resilience Industry
The Journey Began in December 1985 As a resident of Southern California, Kathy Rainey had firsthand experience with earthquakes, but the Mexico City quake of 1985 was stunning in its devastation. The extended shaking destroyed [...]
Does Your BCP Reflect Real People with Real Needs?
Historically, Disaster Recovery plans have focused on technology (hot site) and data (back up and off-site storage). Very little attention was given to the people component. The assumption was made that the required people would [...]
Tell a Story: Stop Spewing Data
Let's talk about storytelling and why it's important for leaders, especially in this pandemic crisis. In an earlier article blog, I shared Accenture's tips for what to do in this COVID time. Telling a story [...]
I Recovered From COVID-19. Here’s My Story.
It’s been an incredibly difficult couple of weeks. We’ve all witnessed incredible societal upheaval, and on a personal level (on March 16th) I learned that I tested positive for COVID-19. Thankfully, I have fully recovered, [...]
Thinking about Blame and Responsibility in our Current Crisis….
For the past 35 years, I have worked in the Emergency Management, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity industry (EM/DR/BC) – starting in 1985 as a provider of earthquake preparedness supplies for the west coast and [...]
Recovering: Social Networks Matter More Than Bottled Water and Batteries
Survivors leave Tohoku a day after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.Warren Antiola/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Standard advice about preparing for disasters focuses on building shelters and stockpiling things like food, water and batteries. But [...]
The Impact of Sudden Earthquakes on Emotional Control
Recently the Central Coast of California and due south experienced a quake. In Santa Barbara itself, it was relatively mild, but for some including all the way down to Orange County, Calif., it was surprising [...]