When planning for a major event involving multiple parties and agencies, particularly when multiple specialties are involved, effective communication is absolutely critical. Everyone needs to understand who’s in charge, where they will get information from, and who they will give information to. You need to have a solid command, control and communication (C3) structure in [...]
Every summit is a success. Some are more successful than others. That, apparently, is the official line on every major summit that happens – G8, G20, Copenhagen, and others. I heard that at a meeting earlier this week. No matter how much, or how little, gets accomplished at each of these summits, they are officially [...]
What would you think if a decision-maker said to your face, “Sorry, your project is not a priority. We’re focusing our efforts elsewhere”? Would your first instinct be, “@#$ing @$$-%*&#!”? Would it be, “Damn old fart doesn’t know what’s good!”? Would it be, “Senior management doesn’t understand what’s really important!”? Or would it be, “Thank [...]
There are some people who like war. It’s not the soldiers. It’s not the generals – at least not the ones who’ve been on the line, in the thick of things. The people who want war are those who are full of bravado but don’t know any better, those who stand to gain power, and [...]
AAR isn’t just a sound that your favorite pirate makes when he runs out of whisky. It stands for After-Action Report, and it is what the business world calls “Lessons Learned.” However, the term lessons learned is sometimes a bit too presumptuous – are the lessons really learned? Better yet, are the lessons even really [...]
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