disaster plan

  • How Do You Recover From a Devastating Incident?

    • October 25, 2017
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Leadership
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    Disaster spelled out on Scrabble tiles. Disaster recovery involves a lot of tiny parts working together.

    Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve had to fire a lot of people over the years, usually related to performance issues. But in the 21 years I was president of the company, I never had a layoff. That was one of my precepts of managing a business: I believed layoffs were really a

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  • Do You Have a Disaster Plan for Your Manufacturing Company?

    • September 6, 2017
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management, Manufacturing, Safety
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    September is National Preparedness Month. A good time to create or update your disaster plan.

    With Hurricane Harvey passing just a couple hours southeast of me, and Hurricane Irma hitting Florida, I have been wondering what businesses in the affected area have done to protect their data and information from disaster. I’ve heard stories of businesses that have had to shut down because they lost their financial and client data

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