… the end of the decade

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Chris Brogan’s Blog is a great source of information on social media. Recently he posted about his novel approach to setting goals and resolutions for the New Year. Instead of setting specific resolutions he sets 3 words as his guiding principles, or the keyword to focus his mind on his goals. Chris describes it this [...]

… bouncing back and breaking

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I read an article yesterday by Dan Bailey. It is called “Is resilience the most appropriate direction for Business Continuity Management?” The link is to a password protected part of the DRJ site, but they have a lot of good material so it is worth registering. Dan is unsure about what resilience means. He likens it [...]

… communities and resilience.

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In 2004 I went to Phuket for Christmas with my wife and daughter. Everything was really good, up until Boxing Day. We were very lucky with the impact of the Tsunami, despite staying right by the beach the level of water inundation was less than we saw only a few kilometers further north. Even better we had a flight [...]

… Christmas

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Merry Christmas to you, thank you for taking the time to read my posts. I hope you have a holiday period free from BC events. There will be no new posts here for a couple of days. Back next Monday, 28th.

… the sky falling (again)

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One school of thought in BC says you “plan for the worst and hope for the best”. Sometimes that makes us like “Chicken Little” – we run around warning against the sky falling. That is pretty much what happened with Y2K – often driven by consultants who had not worked in BC before or since. [...]