I need to set the stage for what is, so it becomes what was. One of the biggest challenges for business continuity is leadership buy-in....

For a lot of business owners, knowing the quantitative impact to their bottom line is what can seal the deal in making strategic...

Succession planning can be problematic. Not just from a logistics standpoint, but also from just how integrated the out-going leader is...

I am not a fan of being constricted by anything, really. I'm also a fan of using what you already know but in a way you're not thinking...

This should not come as a surprise once I explain what I mean. The plan outlines the steps that will happen and the roles each person...

Guess what I'm not going to tell you. That you need to spend all of your money on business continuity. Why? You can throw thousands upon...

I've had two people who read my new book make a similar comment: it's already out of date because of what Trump is doing to federal...

Don't get me wrong - setting up a Go-Fund-Me if your business is located in an area that has just been hit by a disaster is great to help...

The last time I talked about cannibalization in a business sense was as a corporate lawyer. It's basically when, as a business, you...

There is a lot of talk about "getting rid" of FEMA. That's a dog that's been walked back before (in the early 90s), and it will be walked...

I've written before about the regulatory whiplash and the cluster of confusion and expense it creates for big manufacturing companies...

2025 continues its jump-out-the-gate-with-tragedy start. If you're a business, knowing how things work will help you in your response and...

This is both the first blog of 2025 and the first since I took my holiday break to write my second book. I am writing about "good enough"...

Pretty much every Christmas movie has business continuity in it. Santa sick? Mrs. Claus steps in. Can't fly the sleigh because the fog is...

I was reading an article in a local Asheville paper recently that was a roundup of a city meeting regarding zoning of the floodplains....

Things are meant to change - for better or worse - as part of evolution and life. I've said after a disaster or disruption, the final...

That was advice given to me in a sitdown with a Colonel when I was about to graduate JAG School. His point was that most bad things could...

This is just a fact.  I'm not ashamed to admit I almost never eat fast food. The last time I had Wendy's was 2015 and I can't say when...

Not business continuity being in the news...but of course no one is calling it business continuity (although that's what it is). I...

Disruptions don't always have to come in the form of a surprise. Annual events - as in on this day every year X happens - can be either a...