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 …
Resilience Is a Profit Center, Not a Cost Center
Jackie King, executive director of Ibec Global, recently argued that resilience is a profit issue, not just a risk issue (per Business Plus). She is right. And most boardrooms still do not act like it. Here is the claim, stated plainly. Resilience is a profit center. The work you fund to keep operating through disruption …
Four Days in the Office Won’t Fix a Product Problem
General Mills announced yesterday that most of its North American headquarters employees will be in the office four days a week starting September 8. The current return to office mandate is three. CEO Jeff Harmening tied the change directly to disappointing business performance. The implicit logic: if our people were in the office one more …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #327: The IT Problem Myth
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser breaks down the dangerous fallacy of the “IT-only” crisis. When your cloud provider goes down at 9:14 AM on a Tuesday, the resulting chaos—from broken point-of-sale systems to dark warehouses—isn’t a technical glitch; it’s a total business failure. If your …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #326: Compliance is not Resilience
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser explains why a clean compliance audit and a resilient organization are not the same thing. Compliance proves what you did in the past. Resilience is what you execute under pressure in the future. Bryan walks through why a 300-page binder …
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The Cyber Threat Landscape Has Shifted Under You
The cyberattack your organization planned for in 2024 is not the cyberattack you will face in 2026. That is not hyperbole. It is what the data shows, and it is what we see in the resilience and crisis work we do with clients across financial services, healthcare, technology, and critical infrastructure. The change is not …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #325: The Polycrisis Playbook: Why Leaders Must Be Ready for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Your business continuity program was built for one crisis at a time. That world is gone. In Episode 325 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath unpacks the polycrisis and why concurrent, compounding crises break the programs most organizations rely on. Bryan walks through the ten threats driving the polycrisis era and the …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #324 – Why Performative Leadership Destroys Crisis Response
Bryan Strawser challenges a common but damaging leadership instinct: the urge for executives to take over and micromanage during a crisis. He explains that this kind of performative leadership creates bottlenecks, slows decision-making, and undermines the expertise of the crisis team when speed and clarity matter most. Strawser emphasizes that effective crisis leadership requires nuance—balancing …