… heroic serendipity

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Things have been a little slow on the writing front since my last post about Tim Armit’s essay. I was a little disappointed that Tim’s original post generated so little discussion. I am the only person who commented at Continuity Central. I also posted about this on a LinkedIn Group (BCM Info Exchange), which generated 3 [...]

… a professional’s lament

I read a lot of BCM-related websites, and I am subscribed to too many mailing lists and RSS feeds on the subject. With a lot of the content I just hit the delete key. However when the name Tim Armit comes up on on any of these sources I sit up and pay attention. Tim [...]

… “cell storm” disruption

Over the weekend the city of Melbourne was hit by a heavy hail storm. Storms have also hit the headlines in Europe and the USA is recent months as the cause of disruption. Three years ago a similar cell storm caused considerable damage to the commerical centre of Canberra. We read about these being extreme [...]

… competence and disclosure (Part 2)

Johari Window
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Competence and Disclosure

In the first part of this series I talked about the path from blissful ignorance to ‘Unconscious Competence’ – and how that could be applied to thinking about BCM and Resilience. The focus of this post is about using a different model to explore how we can learn more about ourselves and our professional programs. [...]

… competence and disclosure (Part 1)

The Learning Stages
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Competence and Disclosure

This post was inspired by a comment that Chris Miller made on my post about non-routine risk. I had used the term ‘unconscious competence’ to describe a mode of risk management that we all practice – dealing with risks such as crossing the road and the like. Things that we can do competently without having to [...]