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My Business After Hurricane Sandy: Creating a Contingency Plan

Women on Business

Assign them tasks now when you are away on vacation or in traveling so that in the event they have to cover you or your staff for a period of time – they are prepared and familiar with your company. There are many outsourcing companies that allow you to hire a virtual assistant and pay them only for the hours you need every month.

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Preparing Your Business for COVID-19

Lead Change Blog

Expect that there will be a variety of event cancellations and travel changes. Anticipate that there will be major disruptions to your supply chains, particularly to your service providers. There will be changes even in social norms. Assess how these possible changes will affect your business model and staff. Conclusion.

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Leadership Training For Executives

Experience to Lead

Our Leadership Experiences immerse leaders in powerful metaphors from professional sports, songwriting and human space travel to bringing leadership lessons into sharp focus. Leadership Experiences Stories from the world around us will often reveal leadership lessons that apply to every leadership role. What training does an executive need?

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Do Leaders Need to Change Their Plans to Address the New COVID-19 Strains?

Lead Change Blog

The surge will flood our medical systems, create significant supply interruptions, and hit sectors like travel and hospitality. Our healthcare system is already dealing with an enormous load of cases in a lot of states. How will it handle a doubling of cases every two weeks? Might vaccines help? What about government lockdowns? Not likely.

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5 Ingenious Ways to Keep Your Small Business Running While on Holiday

Lead Change Blog

Unless someone happens to be particularly unreasonable, your clients will wish you well on your travels and thank you for keeping them updated. Lastly, I’ll explain exactly what work will be carried out in the run-up to the holiday. This should never backfire on you. Prepare the staff.

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Book Review: “Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All”

The Practical Leader

Where’s that time traveling machine to go back and make those investments? They channel their fear and worry into action, preparing, developing contingency plans, building buffers, and maintaining large margins of safety." Every 10X case beat its industry index by at least 10 times."

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Lead/”Beek”/Run – Love, kindness & bringing it “all” to the “mat”

Anese Cavanaugh

So that’s the start of this “series” At this point, I’m excited, I’m all over it, I’m mapping out my schedule and contingency plans for travel and quirky schedules as we speak. Because only I will be able to tell if I brought it all to the mat.

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