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	<description>Consistently-entertaining, thoughtful commentary on business continuity (BCP), crisis management &#38; emergency response</description>
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		<title>What’s wrong with contingency planners?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A contingency planner plays defence; a resilience professional plays offence.  A contingency planner prepares for a power outage; a resilience professional prepares to project power. A contingency planner protects the organization from losing value; a resilience professional works out how to add value. In my opinion, a contingency planner can only earn trust by becoming a resilience professional. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2013/04/whats-wrong-with-contingency-planners/</link>
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		<title>TSA Pre-Check: Beaver Cleaver’s airport security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The group-grope that constitutes U.S. airport ‘security’ has been around so long that I'd forgotten how much simpler air travel in America used to be. But in December holidays I used TSA Pre-Check program for the first time at both LAX and MSP, and I was overcome with travel nostalgia.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2013/01/beaver-cleaver-airport-security-tsa-precheck/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with contingency planning?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with doing contingency planning, of course.  It is a worthwhile, noble - if thankless – professional activity.  It saves lives and protects assets in the public and private sectors. Its objective - resilience - can even offer a competitive advantage for a company, a community, even a country.  But the ways we practice contingency planning today cannot lead to resilience because...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2013/01/whats-wrong-with-contingency-planning/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I regret to inform you&#8221;&#8230;by text message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A text message is a terrible way to deliver bad news to employees. There are five (5) simple, clear rules for 'breaking bad news'.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/12/regret-to-inform-you-by-text-message/</link>
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		<title>Small business BCM: still pushing a rock uphill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resilient Business NZ is a good idea that may result in a measurable increase in preparation, but it is basically another entreaty  - like Canada’s B-Ready Now and the Singapore Business Federation’s National BCM Programme  for SMEs - to small business owners to spend time and money they don’t have. A business owner isn’t looking for ways to spend money; she is looking for ways to make money (and aren’t we all?).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/11/small-biz-bcm-pushing-a-rock-uphill/</link>
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		<title>Terrifying: apes armed with iPads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former National Security Advisor Richard Clarke is caught off guard in this video (08:30 minutes) from American comedian Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report TV show dramataiizing a threat from zoo animals with tablet devices. Clarke thinks he’s being asked about people; he’s actually being asked about orang-utans. I wrote about Clarke’s riveting keynote presentation at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/09/terrifying-apes-armed-with-ipads/</link>
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		<title>Alternate CPR: just press hard and fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), it’s hard to strike a balance between proven but multi-step rescue techniquesused by emergency professionals, and simpler techniques that non-professional bystanders might actually remember in an emergency. Sarver Heart Center at University of Arizona (USA) College of Medicine now teaches just one technique: Chest Compression Only CPR (CCO CPR). No [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/09/alternate-cpr-just-press-hard-and-fast/</link>
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		<title>Notification systems in Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest obstacle in Asia to use of automated emergency/mass notification systems (EMNS) is that most vendors are in Europe (RapidReach®, FACT24) or in North America (all thirteen leading vendors in this March 2012 report from Gartner, Inc). An alert within Singapore, for example, from Shenton Way to Orchard Road &#8211; about three (3) kilometres [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/09/notification-systems-in-asia/</link>
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		<title>Nigeria has cornered the market in email fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do so many email scams still originate in Nigeria? Why not Bangladesh or Brazil or some Third World country? Doesn’t everybody know that email from Nigeria is probably a 419 scam? Microsoft’s Cormac Herley argues in this paper (14 pages) that mentioning Nigeria may increase the odds of finding the few suckers who will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/09/nigeria-has-cornered-the-market-in-email-fraud/</link>
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		<title>Finding resilience in the lost-and-found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A heart-warming story like this one about a hotel’s effort to return a child’s lost stuffed animal confirms my belief in the inestimable, long-term resilience value of customer service. Business impact doesn’t necessarily have to be negative.  Ritz Carlton Hotels’ good customer service had very positive impact:  they made a loyal, vocal customer; they got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.calamityprevention.com/blog/2012/07/finding-resilience-in-the-lost-and-found/</link>
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