In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser digs into new research on how CEOs really view their marketing leaders. The numbers show trust at a five-year high while 60% of CEOs call the function overhead. Bryan argues resilience leaders live the same contradiction, with an even harder problem: …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #332: What Belongs in a Resilience Policy
Most resilience policies are either a mission statement with a logo or a forty-page plan wearing a policy’s name tag. Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath recently reviewed a global company’s business continuity policy that failed four of ISO 22301’s six requirements. Nowhere did it require anyone to exercise anything. In this episode, Bryan explains what a …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #331: Where to Play, How to Win – Aligning Resilience with Corporate Strategy
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser explores the role of corporate strategy in building an effective resilience program. Most business continuity programs can recite their RTOs and plan counts but cannot articulate the company strategy. Bryan explains why that gap leaves organizations protecting yesterday’s business. Drawing …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #330: The Leadership Difference – Why Resilience Programs Live or Die at the Top
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath examines the single largest variable in whether a resilience program succeeds. It is not the framework, the tooling, or the number of plans. It is whether a senior leader owns it. Bryan walks through four things strong leaders do that weak sponsors never …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #329: The Champion Problem
On this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath examines why some resilience programs survive a change in leadership and others quietly fall apart. The deciding factor is rarely the quality of the plans. It comes down to business alignment and whether the program’s champion understands that alignment is the point. Bryan …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #328: Subtract
Most resilience programs don’t fail because the plans are wrong. They fail because capable leaders make the work more complicated than it needs to be, and never tie it back to the business. In this episode, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath explains the complexity tax and why “adding rigor” usually makes things worse. Bryan walks through …
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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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