I wasn’t planning to write about Barney (our spaniel puppy) in this blog, but his antics last week sort of made it inevitable. Barney’s rapidly approaching doggie adolescence and, as one of the books on puppy training that I read recently warned me would happen, he’s reached the stage where he’s either forgotten or chooses to […]
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Oz’s Business Continuity Tip of the Month : “Rudolph the red-faced business continuity manager” (a Christmas tale – sort of!)
Once upon a time there was a senior manager called Rudolph who, on top of his myriad other responsibilities, was put in charge of the business continuity programme. Now Rudolph was a busy chap with a lot on his plate. He didn’t have time for detail. And anyway, disasters never happen, do they? Well, only […]
Mid-life crisis management
My mid-life crisis, which has been bubbling away for a while now, took a serious turn for the worse recently. I was gutted to be asked to play for the veterans team at my hockey club. Some people’s mid-life crises manifest themselves in the need to buy a flash car or a motorbike. Or the […]
Paws for thought
My last but one blog (“A bit of a Barney”) featured our new puppy, Barney. He’s now had his various inoculations and is able to venture out into the world and a couple of weeks ago he spent his first day at work. The office where we work allows tenants to bring their dogs in […]
From beekeeping to BCM
I’ve been accused (a tad unfairly in my opinion) by a colleague of occasionally making somewhat tenuous links in my blogs between some of my personal experiences and business continuity management. So what on earth, you may ask, is the link between beekeeping and business continuity management – or more specifically in this case, the […]