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Key Strategies for Effective Decision-Making in Crisis Management

BryghtPath

In today’s volatile business landscape, crises disrupt stability and challenge organizational resilience. At the core of crisis management lies the pivotal role of decision-making—a compass steering an organization through turmoil. Crises, stemming from various sources, demand swift, calculated actions underpinned by astute decision-making. In this turbulent environment, decisions wield immense influence—guiding resource allocation, communication, stakeholder … The post Key Strategie

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Crisis Management Quotables…on the Ones You Don’t See Coming

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Management Quotables…on the Ones You Don’t See Coming “The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming.” — Mike Mansfield, Former Senate Majority Leader and diplomat The Unpredictable Nature of Crises This quote from Mike Mansfield, American diplomat and Senate Majority leader from 1961-1977, highlights a vital truth in crisis management: the most daunting crisis is the one you never see coming.

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Getting Elected is the Easy Part

Disaster Zone Podcast

Karen Kaiser is a currently serving Washington State Senator. She recently had a book published, Getting Elected is the Easy Part: Work and Winning in the State Legislature In this podcast we learn about her personal experiences and then also dive more deeply into her advice for people aspiring to be elected officials. Here is a description of her book: Across the nation every two years, first-time lawmakers enter state legislatures--institutions steeped in tradition, arcane procedures, and unw

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Disaster Zone Podcast: ‘Getting Elected Is the Easy Part’

Disaster Zone

Insights from a long-serving state-level elected official.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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New GAO Report on AI in Natural Hazards Modeling

Recovery Diva

TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: Artificial Intelligence in Natural Hazard Modeling Severe Storms, Hurricanes, Floods, and Wildfire. Note that the full report is 61 pp. The Diva considers this a must read for people in the emergency management field and expects that this subject will be an important one in 2024.

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IT Agility Delivered: Future-ready Storage Solutions to Meet Enterprise Data Growth

Pure Storage

IT Agility Delivered: Future-ready Storage Solutions to Meet Enterprise Data Growth by Pure Storage Blog Being close to our customers and focusing on solving their strategic IT challenges has been a key tenet for Pure Storage since day one. When we talk to front-line IT staff and business leaders, they’ve been consistent with their commentary: “How can you help us meet our data and application growth?

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National Politics do Influence Emergency Management

Disaster Zone

Sad but true, it is just something we need to deal with.

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Draft of New FEMA Guide on Climate Adaptation

Recovery Diva

FEMA is seeking feedback on the draft guide “Climate Adaptation Planning for Emergency Managers.” FEMA is seeking feedback on the draft guide “Climate Adaptation Planning for Emergency Managers.” The guide helps emergency managers incorporate climate adaptation into emergency management planning efforts.

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Trusting Zerto with Zero Trust

Zerto

Zero trust is a security framework that is based on the principle of not automatically trusting any user or device, whether inside or outside the network perimeter. In a zero trust model, all users, devices, and applications must be verified and authenticated before they are granted access to resources on the network. Integrating a disaster recovery solution into zero trust architecture is crucial.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How to Successfully Manage a File Migration

Pure Storage

How to Successfully Manage a File Migration by Pure Storage Blog Are you ready to embark on a file migration journey but feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer scope of the task? Fear not! File migration is a crucial aspect of managing digital assets efficiently. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the process, providing helpful insights every step of the way. 1.

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New National Leader for Cybersecurity

Disaster Zone

There was a 10-month vacancy.

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Looking Back on the Big Policy Stories of 2023

The Rand Blog

As 2023 draws to a close, RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny highlights areas where RAND is tackling the most urgent and complex problems we face. Each is a small reminder that where there are thoughtful people working tirelessly to find solutions, there is hope.

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Reputation Management Case Studies: Big Brand Turnarounds

BryghtPath

Discover reputation management case studies from leading brands. Learn how they successfully navigated crises to reshape their image! The post Reputation Management Case Studies: Big Brand Turnarounds appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Security Industry Association Announces the 2024 Security Megatrends

Security Industry Association

Across Four Components That Are Trends Themselves, Artificial Intelligence Tops the List of Key Trends Forecasted to Impact the Industry in 2024 and Beyond. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has identified and forecasted the 2024 Security Megatrends, which form the basis of SIA’s signature annual Security Megatrends report defining the top 10 factors influencing both short- and long-term change in the global security industry.

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Holiday Preparedness Gifts

Disaster Zone

Give the gift of disaster preparedness.

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Testing the Waters: Using Wastewater Surveillance as an Early Warning System

The Rand Blog

A global consortium to fund sentinel and community surveillance systems and enable global data sharing was established at the International Wastewater Surveillance Conference in November. Success will require bringing together the knowledge being amassed to combat the fracturing of pathogen surveillance and to enable effective early warning between countries.

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Resilient Business: Natural Disaster Preparedness Guide

BryghtPath

Unlock vital strategies for natural disaster preparedness to protect your business. Learn from case studies and plan effectively for disruptions. The post Resilient Business: Natural Disaster Preparedness Guide appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Dude, Where's my Copilot?

Advancing Analytics

You couldn’t miss all of the Copilot hype at Microsoft Ignite this year, and of course that means Copilots are also coming to Fabric. Copilot is an AI assistant designed to help you be more productive. Don’t worry, it’s not looking to fully automate away your job, but it will provide handy suggestions and automate some simple tasks that can then be refined by hand.

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Job: City of Santa Cruz, Emergency Operations Manager

Disaster Zone

Looks like a great position.

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A Precarious Moment for Yemen's Truce

The Rand Blog

The truce in Yemen is imperfect, but it is the only barrier currently preventing the country from sliding back into widespread war. A comprehensive negotiation process is the most viable option for peace in Yemen in the near term, and the only barrier to the humanitarian devastation that a full-scale resumption of the war in Yemen would surely bring.

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SIA New Member Profile: Rebel Global Security

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Rebel Global Security is a trusted global security advisor to business leaders in critical industries. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and serves clients across the United States and around the world. SIA spoke with Mark Freedman, CEO and founder of Rebel Global Security, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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When is an Aggregate not an Aggregate?

Advancing Analytics

I am irked. As a father of two high school aged children, this is not uncommon, but for once they are not the source of my ire. On this occasion, it’s the following widely distributed image, taken from the Databricks website: What’s the matter? What is causing me this annoyance? Could it be the slightly clumsy but somehow now de facto naming convention used for the Lakehouse layers?

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Lawyers Give Advice, They Don’t Make Decisions for You

Disaster Zone

Great legal advice may not be practical.

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How to Best Utilize Purity CLI Scripting

Pure Storage

How to Best Utilize Purity CLI Scripting by Pure Storage Blog Hopefully everyone is aware of our REST API that can be used to script against FlashArray and FlashBlade arrays. And some writers on this blog are big fans of using PowerShell to interact with your Pure products. But what if you’re a simple lover of BASH? This blog post aims to explain some of the CLI scripting utilities that we have built into the Purity CLI.

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Security Industry Association Opens Call for Speaking Proposals for SIA GovSummit 2024

Security Industry Association

Speaking proposals are being accepted for SIA’s public policy and government security conference taking place May 21-22, 2024, in Washington, D.C. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) is seeking proposals from subject matter experts for the 2024 SIA GovSummit – SIA’s annual public policy and government security technology conference.

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Why you should be a Data Culture Vulture

Advancing Analytics

Data culture refers to an organisation's collective mindset and behaviour when it comes to data-driven decision-making. It encompasses the willingness of employees at all levels to use data effectively in their daily work, fostering a data-informed and data-driven environment that values information as a strategic asset. Data culture is like the beating heart of a data-driven organisation.