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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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
10 Jan
Auckland
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
05 Dec
The Changing Media
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
18 Oct
DISCOURS ET PRESENTATIONS
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
12 Oct
The Media and You
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
05 Oct
CARING, KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
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
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
21 Sep
PROCESS DESIGN
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
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.
08 Sep
DRAW ON ALL YOUR RESOURCES
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
31 Aug
SURVIVING RADIO
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
16 Aug
SECRET SECRETS
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
04 Aug
A CYBERSECURITY CHECKLIST
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
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
03 May
A POINT OF ORDER
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
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
10 Apr
TOTALITARIAN
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
26 Mar
V O L U N T E E R S
In the movies, when the town is threatened by natural or other events, somebody rounds up all the able bodied people and gets them to spring into action. If it’s a western, women, men, and children load rifles, make barricades, and fire off a few rounds. They barely hold out until the cavalry arrives —
Roman Ilchenko has served as a Founding Partner of NIAR, an international group of companies focused on business development and market analysis in Ukraine. These past few weeks have been exceptionally different for Mr. Ilchenko as he serves as a reservist for the Ukrainian military, called up to fight against the Russian invasion into Ukraine.