Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic signed the same letter. So did Microsoft, Google, AWS, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard, Visa, AT&T, and more than a hundred other organizations. The letter, A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense, says AI-enabled cyber attacks “will become far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months, and that …
The AI Labs Just Warned You About AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks. Here Is What They Left Out.Read More
Here is the uncomfortable finding most CEOs will skip past this week. New research from Wharton, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, analyzed six years of data to understand why some leaders defend remote and hybrid work while others kill it. The researchers surveyed thousands of executives, managers, and supervisors across a long …
A Return-to-Office Mandate Is a Tell About Your Leadership, Not Your StrategyRead More
Fusion Risk Management just published five years of market data, and buried inside it is an admission you rarely hear from a software company: the tools are not the constraint. Adoption is. The Enterprise Resilience Report draws on 4,571 intake conversations with 1,765 organizations evaluating resilience software between 2021 and 2025. It is vendor data …
The Resilience Maturity Gap Isn’t a Software ProblemRead More
Your CEO probably likes you. That is not the same as believing your program pays for itself. Two recent research studies about chief marketing officers explain this gap better than anything published in our own field, and they explain why executive buy-in for business continuity keeps eroding even when the relationship with leadership feels strong. …
Executive Buy-In for Business Continuity: Being Liked Is Not the Same as Being BelievedRead More
Hour three of a ransomware response. Someone on the call says what someone always says. “Didn’t we work through this in the spring?” They did. There was a tabletop in April that ran this exact scenario. The team reached a decision on the payment question, wrote down the criteria, and named who owned the call. …
Your Crisis Decision History Is a Single Point of FailureRead More
In March 2020, days into the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Harvard Business School put Professor Dutch Leonard on its Managing Through Crisis webcast to answer the question every executive was suddenly asking: how do you lead when nobody knows what to do? I recently went back and rewatched that conversation. Six years on, it is the …
Crisis Leadership When the Playbook Fails: Dutch Leonard’s Framework, Six Years LaterRead More
A McKinsey survey published this month found something I see in nearly every engagement: organizations will happily study the future, but they will not put their leaders inside it. The numbers are blunt. Fewer than a third of the executives McKinsey surveyed call their geopolitical risk management “mature.” A majority, 53 percent, say scenario planning …
Geopolitical Scenario Planning Is the Easy Part. Exercises Are Where Leaders Break.Read More
Most resilience programs don’t fail because the plans are wrong. They fail because the people running them make the work more complicated than it needs to be, and never tie it back to what the business actually cares about. Over the past years, I’ve watched multiple experienced, capable executives run resilience programs inside large, complex …
