Hit by a Hurricane? Resources for Disaster Management After over a decade of relative calm, the 2017 Hurricane season has turned out to be one of the...
Avoiding or Adapting It is tempting to think of security only in negative terms, as something that is always lacking and never...
Five Keys to Unlocking Safety Culture As with organizational culture in general, safety and security is about the practices, habits and beliefs about risks and...
Melting the Iceberg In order to better understand the 2003 Space Shuttle disaster, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) started their analysis...
It’s Not Rocket Science! Granted, most organizations are not NASA. They are not multi-billion research, development, and operations agencies full of rocket scientists,...
The Power of Self-Selecting Teams Last night I attended an interesting presentation and discussion of how to create empowered, effective, and fun teams as...
Organizational Risk Categories and Standards Risk and Change Taking risks is the essence of doing business. Without it, very few organizations would have started,...
SAP NS2 Solutions Summit – Change management and the government Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the 3rd annual SAP NS2 Solutions Summit in Falls Church, VA. There...
Reinvention – The Importance of Embracing Change Throughout my 20 year career I have changed “jobs” for a variety of reasons. Whether it was due to...
Managing resistance to change Can people change? The simple answer is “No”. People do NOT change who they are at their core. People...