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25 Jan

Aspirational

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Many personal coaches and therapists try to get their clients to stop using the “woulda, shoulda, coulda…” terminology. We can all get a little down by focussing on what we would have done, should have done, and could have done, had life unfolded differently.

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20 Jan

Analytics create databases just waiting to be hacked | Troy Media

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Political parties’ fixation on analytics poses a threat to your personal information In the olden days, there were lots of ways to disrupt elections. In at least one Canadian jurisdiction, gifts would be waiting for you outside the polling place. That’s disruption. One of the first national elections I covered was in the days when

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10 Jan

Auckland

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Auckland’s Emergency Management Group Plan is a wake-up call for the rest of the world. In my study of 100 urban emergency plans from the top English-speaking cities in the world, none face up to lack of preparedness the way Auckland does. Auckland’s plan notes that only about 7% of its residents are prepared for

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29 Dec

External Responders to your Crisis

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Viewing the public as de facto first responders simply acknowledges what is a reality in many disasters. Even if the public do not respond in any official, organized or meaningful way, they are present. A member of the public is often the one who reports the incident by various means, including yelling for help, dialling

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05 Dec

The Changing Media

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I began writing news on a typewriter. In our small and cheap broadcasting station we cut audio tape with a razor blade and even edited silent, negative film by ripping out black spots with our fingers and splicing the two pieces back together with ordinary, clear, sticky tape! You don’t have to be an expert

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18 Oct

DISCOURS ET PRESENTATIONS

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Le besoin Pourquoi avons-nous besoin de bien parler? Après tout, je n’ai jamais rencontré quelqu’un qui ait été affamé – du moins dans son propre pays – parce qu’il ne pouvait pas demander à manger. Peu de gens sont à ce point timides qu’ils ne peuvent pas flirter, se marier ou postuler un emploi. La

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12 Oct

The Media and You

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Like it or not, it’s almost impossible to cut yourself off from today’s news media. Step into an elevator in any office tower and you are likely to find your eyes drawn to a television monitor with a stream of numbers and stock symbols scrolling through. Restaurants, bars, waiting rooms, lobbies and even airlines have

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05 Oct

CARING, KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION

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America is so polarized that I have to be careful about writing only about Democrats or Republicans in Winning Campaigns. I’m in constant danger of alienating 50 per cent of the readership. Below, I had the good fortune to be able to use both Presidents Clinton and Reagan to illustrate a similar point. There are

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27 Sep

SIMULATIONS AS A LEARNING TOOL

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Teachers of dispute resolution are constantly grappling with the question of best practices and methodologies. One of the most popular methodologies is simulations, whose value is in harnessing different learning styles. Some people learn by reading, some by writing and others by speaking. Some learn through spirituality, emotions, the physical (kinesthetic) and as a result

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21 Sep

PROCESS DESIGN

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Disputes are thieves. They rob us of time, energy and money. Disputes can even lead to death. Preventing disputes and resolving them quickly is imperative. Many disputes are of the kind we tell stories about over coffee in the workplace. A misunderstanding with one’s spouse, an argument with teenage children, and a difficult conversation at

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15 Sep

CRISES ET TROUBLE DE STRESS POST-TRAUMATIQUE

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Un vaste débat porte sur la durée et l’étendue réelle du stress causé par un incident grave et du trouble de stress post-traumatique (TSPT). Cette section fera un tour d’horizon pour aider les lecteurs à évaluer les techniques d’intervention appropriées. Cela dit, personne ne remet en question l’impact des victimes sur le site d’une catastrophe.

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08 Sep

DRAW ON ALL YOUR RESOURCES

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Miscommunication in personal and professional life costs time, energy and money. Despite that, business leaders are generally poor communicators. As a fact-finding tool, asking disputants to draw their perspectives can help achieve clarity. It may sound odd, but even rudimentary stick figures help focus a speaker’s message. A bag of money can represent budgets, a

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31 Aug

SURVIVING RADIO

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Fredericton radio morning show host Terry Seguin did his introduction, and then began grilling me about urban emergency planning. Journalists are supposed to be provocative, and he was. Since Fredericton has no designated evacuation centres, he asked: “What’s wrong with telling people the day of an incident where they should go?” Using old reflexes, I

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16 Aug

SECRET SECRETS

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In the classic movie Animal House staring John Belushi, some of the rowdy students are put on “double-secret probation.” Yikes! You’re in trouble and you don’t know it and if you could find out you’re in trouble, you’d have to find out twice to get out of the double-secret part. Which brings us to the

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04 Aug

A CYBERSECURITY CHECKLIST

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There are plenty of resources on cybersecurity. Some are based on existing frameworks, but much is still under development. Regardless of framework, the best protection against a cybersecurity threat is action. The following checklist gives a brief overview of some of the actions a well-prepared organization has or will commit to implementing as part of

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25 Jul

BIG DATA

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“I don’t have anything to hide,” say many social media users and online shoppers. But most of us do have something to hide — we just aren’t sure what it is. You pass by hospitals and supermarkets. You may also pass a university where a research study is being done. Somebody knows this because of

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15 Jun

A N E M E R G E N C Y C L E A R I N G OF THE AIR

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while ago, just before writing about Bradford’s emergency preparedness plan, there was a BBC news story about a fire that had broken out at nearby Drummonds Mill. High levels of carbon monoxide were released into the air. According to the BBC, about 100 houses were evacuated as a precautionary measure. One hundred firefighters tackled the

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03 May

A POINT OF ORDER

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Clive Thompson’s headline in the New York Times Magazine is eye-catching and funny — “PowerPoint Makes you Dumb.” The article is based on the work of Edward Tufte and his book The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. Thompson’s article is about the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that looked into the crash of the

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24 Apr

FOR SAFETY’S SAKE… T H I N K A G A I N

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Researchers in the emergency management field call urban emergency plans fantasies, since these rely on public transit, private cars, and even expertise and help that often doesn’t really exist. Up to 56% of urbanites don’t have cars, and often the remedies listed in crisis plans turn out not to exist. In fact, some evacuation orders

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10 Apr

TOTALITARIAN

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In the days before computers, politicians still had a way to deter- mine how much help they’d give you. If you asked for a favour, many would look you up on the voter rolls to see if you’d voted. If so, there was at least a chance you’d voted for that politician. If you received

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