Win or Lose? Nay. Win or Learn. I say it a lot – it’s never too late to learn what you wish you knew earlier (it’s even on the back cover...

What are regulations? Do they have the same standing and effect as a law? What does it really mean to comply or not? What does compliance...

I had a leader regale me with his management style regarding when employees came in to complain. Them: “I’m mad!” Him: “I get that you’re...

I’m going to give you an example of something you are glad – very glad – failed. And tell you why it failed. Spoiler alert: it’s the same...

Starbucks is having a problem with changing too much for the times. They were a coffee shop where they wanted people to go to spend time...

We know that I specialize in the small business space when it comes to business continuity. A lot of the time the business owners I meet...

I’ve been on a succession planning panel. The other panelists were a HR specialist and an M&A advisor. When – last in the sequence –...

2400 years ago, Aristotle wrote: “for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” He was talking about...

This is coincidentally timed as I plan my topics out weeks in advance. I was teaching my Emergency Management graduate students about...

I try to impress upon small businesses that business continuity is an important field, one they are left out of for no good reason. I...

Small business optimism is at 12 yr low. The National Federation of Independent Businesses conducted their annual study and it’s looking...

I’ve previously written about the costs associated with political maneuvers. If you don’t remember it, it’s here. I am going to show how...

Is having a business continuity plan enough? No. You need to exercise it. Set your mind at ease with both having a business continuity...

I am not shy about the fact I am not a fan of AI (yes, I personally write everything I produce). AI can do what you tell it to do, what...

Have you seen the recently released Netflix documentary series on the cyberattack that took down Ashley Madison? Aside from the juicy...

When it comes to business continuity plans, the plans need to be updated when there is a significant change. Small business owners don’t...

Covid-19 was 4 years ago…a lot of us adapted and moved on. Short-term memory is a real thing with disasters. While I am not arguing for...

I am a diehard fan of community resilience. I have given many talks specific to that or have included it tangentially because it is just...

911 services went down at two different points so far in 2024. The first (written about in this blog) involved an AT&T outage caused by...

Success requires work. Not just work, the work. There is putting in work and doing all the things you need to to get off the ground –...