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The Changing Risk and Liability Landscape for IT Security and Data Risks

February 6, 2019 By p r

Cyberrisks are fast-evolving, posing an ever-changing threat to businesses. According to the annual Allianz Risk Barometer, which surveys more than 1,900 risk experts, cyberrisks have gone from 15^th five years ago to now ranking as the second most important peril globally. But some of these risks remain underestimated, and negligence scenarios are increasing.

Learn how to protect your business from cyberrisk from Building Effective Cybersecurity Programs: A Security Manager’s Handbook by Tari Schreider.

The Pathology of Leadership Error in Crisis

January 8, 2019 By p r

Self-Inflicted Leadership Crisis Response Failure Behaviors

1. Surprise: Stems from the U.S. management culture developed over the last 40 years which stresses the invincibility of managers and leaders based on extensive monitoring and data collection to the exclusion of many traditional (historic?) management beliefs, actions, concerns and functions. Today’s prevailing attitude is that smart managers are unlikely to suffer a crisis.

The unintended consequence of this delusion is that much necessary readiness activity never takes place.

Part of the surprise crisis always brings is related to the almost immediate realization by these smart leaders that readiness has suffered in an environment of management omnipotence and over optimism about inherent response capabilities.

The lesson: The smarter they are the harder and faster they fall.

The outcome is: The refusal to believe that things are serious, i.e. not wanting to look too concerned in the eyes and gossip of peers.

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Meet me at Continuity Insights in NYC next week

October 12, 2018 By p r

I’m looking forward to attending the Continuity Insights conference in New York City on Monday, October 22, 2018.

If you’re attending, be sure to introduce yourself.

If you haven’t already registered, REGISTER HERE NOW!

– Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI

BCI Education Month 2018

July 27, 2018 By p r

Business Continuity Education Month 2018 is on its way this September with lots of learning opportunities. The theme for this year is “Discover Organizational Resilience.”

Announcing The Rothstein Publishing eBook Collection

March 28, 2017 By p r

So much to learn – so little time. You are committed to creating a strong organization, ready to survive under all conditions. You need expert advice for best practices (and even better practices). But your challenge is locating and coming up to speed on all the expert, practical material you need – without reading long books or spending many hours in the classroom.

That’s why we created a virtual bookshelf of resources: The Rothstein Publishing eBook Collection. Written by industry experts, these books complement our current range of Rothstein Publishing printed content and digital resources:

Practical, current, usable content.
Written by experienced professionals – practitioners, consultants, educators.
Convenient eBook and ePub format.
Focused on a single topic.
Short – between 100 and 150 pages.

Current Rothstein Publishing eBook titles include subjects such as cybersecurity law, effective emergency leadership, resilient supply chains, handling bullies in the workplace, emergency evacuation, business continuity plan testing, risk-based security management, and methods for coping with media in a crisis.

View the Rothstein Publishing eBook Collection

Stay tuned. More titles soon. There’s still room on the bookshelf!

Handling Bullies in the Workplace: Practical Tips from an Expert, by Dr. Vali Hawkins-Mitchell

October 12, 2016 By p r

Bullies can range from a person who is an arrogant jerk to someone dangerously violent. They are mean, intentionally dangerous, unconscionable people. And for those of us in the workplace, the problem is that many of them have day jobs.

Freedom from Bullying in the Workplace Week is October 16-22, 2016. Bullying isn’t a topic I enjoy writing about, but do I care about it. I care about freedom from being a victim. Victims have no choices, but I do and you do!

Welcome to the Rothstein Publishing blog (formerly Business Survival)

September 28, 2016 By p r

First of all, if you don’t recognize this, it’s because Rothstein Associates Inc. and Rothstein Publishing are excited to announce that we’ve relaunched the former Business Survival(tm) blog. If you’re reading this, it’s because you’re already a confirmed subscriber to our blog. Remember this?

Now, look for this!

So, what’s new? Lots! For starters, our principal website, www.rothstein.com, is totally new.