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Check out the May/June issue of SUCCESS Magazine with Tony Robbins on the cover -- you might find two pages featuring some #businesscontinuity advice from yours truly! Thank you to Lisa Beach and Kerrie Lee Brown! #SUCCESS #SUCCESSmagazine #businessresilience #businessgrowth #businessowner

Reminder the Gamenight Snack Attack is today at 1pm! There might just be some holiday themes involved... Registration is still up. Link in the comment below. Speaking of the holiday - I'll be concentrating on having a holiday and thusly taking off from posting. I'll be back online in 2025. Best wishes for a great end to 2024 and prosperous 2025 (which #businesscontinuity will help)! Secure. Survive. Thrive. #smallbusiness #businessowner #businessresilience #businessgrowth #exercise

Pretty much every traditional #ChristmasMovie has #businesscontinuity in it. 🎅 🎬 🎄 🤶 Santa sick? Mrs. Claus steps in. 🦌 Can't fly the sleigh because the fog is too thick? Utilize Rudolph to light the way so Christmas can still happen. ❄️ Santa depressed and not wanting to work because he thinks people don't believe in him? Have elves go to Mother Nature, get her sons to call a heat and cold truce to allow snow in a hot area for one day so kids believe in Santa.   We have: 🧑⚕️ employee mental and physical health, ⏭️ succession planning, 🦺 control measures, 🤝 utilizing outside partner relationships All things that are business continuity and the key to a happy ending! Close out 2024 by imagining a better 2025 that is more #resilient. Your New Year's resolution should be to have a business continuity plan. My book is great gift to make that happen. My next book (being written now and will be out in February 2025) will help even more. You got your Q1 and Q2 business continuity aspirations covered! And it didn't even require a trip to the mall. You're welcome! Happy holidays and many wishes for a prosperous New Year! 🎆 Secure. Survive. Thrive. #businessresilience #businessgrowth #businessowner #smallbusiness

New Year's Resolution suggestion: Be a Pirate. ☠️ I recently read this quote: "Like the fire swamp in 'The Princess Bride.' It is treacherous in places, you could go up in flames, you could be attacked by a rodent of unusual size, but you can be a little bit of a pirate and anticipate those threats and figure out how to defuse them." That was said by Radhika Jones, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair when asked about the news media business. What a great way to describe how to be a #leader doing #businesscontinuity! 🥳 But is "pirate" apt? 🤔 Having information and acting on it beforehand might feel a bit dirty. It is survival. You are definitely stealing time for the betterment of your company. And copying or appropriating the ideas of business continuity from others is encouraged! [Just make it tailored for you]. We can all see in movies when the hero/heroine undertake an adventure for the ultimate goal of winning at the end of the day, they make calculated decisions around risk purely so they can get the happy ending. We expect it. We cheer for it. Why would running your business be any different? Secure. Survive. Thrive. For more takes like this, visit the EaaS social media pages on tiktok and instagram @dontkillyourbusiness.com. #businessresilience #businessgrowth #businessowner #pirate #smallbusiness #happyending

"Recovery" is not "Resilience." I was reading an article recently that was a roundup of an Asheville city meeting regarding #zoning of the #floodplains. They kept referring to a percentage of a chance of the areas flooding again. They also kept referring to the flooding from #Helene as a "500-year flood event" and how we need to prepare for the next 500-year flood event. That's incorrect on 3 fronts: ⛔ no one appreciates what the percentage of a probability actually looks like (likely not the speaker, definitely not the listeners); ⛔ it was a 1,000-year flood event (which is much worse); ⛔ you don't prepare for the next last, you prepare for the next worst. A lot of the #recovery services offered since Helene propose getting businesses back to where they were. That's not going to be enough to protect them from next time. You want them to recover better. What concerns me is the leaders of the recovery process are looking to fix it to not even what was (500 vs 1,000 year) and hope it doesn't happen again. Work with a much worse level - the 10,000 year flood (it's a thing) - so you're fixing it once in a generation, not playing the "what are the chances it would happen again?" It could always happen again in the next 2 years. Did many people expect Helene to be followed almost 2 weeks later by Milton? Was it possible though? Do not attach to false hope in the recovery process, which gives a false sense of security when it is looking at only what was, not what can be. Real security requires #resilience, and getting back does not always equate to getting better. Secure. Survive. Thrive. For more on this and other topics, visit and subscribe to the EaaS blog. #businesscontinuity #businessresilience #businessgrowth #smallbusiness #businessowner

Come one, come all: the final Lunchtime Game Night Snack Attack for 2025 on December 19th at 1pm ET! End the year with the gift of more confidence in knowing what you'd do in the event of a disaster or disruption. Last time we did an active shooter. What's in store for this time? Sign up and play along to find out. Registration link in the comments below. Secure. Survive. Thrive. #businesscontinuity #exercise #businessresilience #businessgrowth #strategy

🎙️ Hey everyone! This week’s #MeetCoolPeople guest is Erika Andresen, a powerhouse in business continuity and disaster preparedness! Erika and I have had a couple of conversations now, and I know what she has to offer is huge for us small businesses that are thinking 10 feet in front of us. In this show, we did a deep dive into the importance of contingency planning, especially for solopreneurs and small businesses. From backup plans for virtual assistants to utilizing free resources like fire department consultations, we cover it all. Erika shares some eye-opening personal experiences and practical tips that any business owner can implement to stay resilient against crises. If you're serious about keeping your business afloat during unexpected disruptions, this episode is a must-listen! 🎧 Check out the episode: https://lnkd.in/egHGaSsW Be sure to subscribe while you’re listening, and don’t forget to connect with Erika if you have any questions! #BusinessContinuity #SmallBiz #DisasterPreparedness #MeetCoolPeople

Things are meant to change - for better or worse - as part of evolution and life. The final stage of #businesscontinuity is to return to #normal business operations, but what is "normal"? Is it your old normal or a new one? Many factors go into that. The old normal is familiar and expected. No problem going back to it, especially when business continuity is *supposed* to bring you to it. Sometimes the normal has to be new due to circumstances being altered so significantly by outside forces. Or, even better, you elect for a new normal in the spirit of being agile and taking the opportunity to be creative. They are all winning if it means #survival of the business and the ability to #thrive. There is a time, however, when I don't like a new normal. I was listening to Bryan Cranston's autobiography, 'A Life in Parts,' on Audible He was talking about how he used to play with toy guns. Then JFK was assassinated. One of his friends said, "I'm not playing with guns anymore!" So they stopped. "We tossed our guns aside as if it would cure or alter the course of things that already happened. Urgency was lost and we went back to normal. But a new normal." The new urgency after Helene was we-have-to-do-something to help the businesses get back. But as Bryan said, urgency gets lost and we go back to normal. A new normal of just accepting these sorts of things happen and there is nothing you can do to stop them (there is something!). #Disasters make budgets open for investing in #mitigation and #preparedness. In some cases after the next Helene doesn't materialize in 2 years, spending cuts happen to business continuity planning. This is not everyone's commonplace experience. But it happens often enough it is a tracked trend in the industry. This "New" Normal can become a repeat of what was. It can become recovery without resilience. It can be tapping out on taking preventative action. Or not. You have the power to choose another normal. Secure. Survive. Thrive. For more on this and other topics, visit and subscribe to the blog on the EaaS website. #businessresilience #businessgrowth #businessowner #smallbusiness

🎙️ This Week’s Episode is a Must-Listen! Join Achieving Success with Olivia Atkin as we dive into the world of business resilience with Erika Andresen, founder of EaaS—Erika as a Service. From advising NATO to creating innovative solutions for modern businesses, Erika’s journey from the battlefield to the boardroom is nothing short of inspiring. 💡 Learn how to: * Turn setbacks into stepping stones. * Keep your business prepared for the unexpected. * Make your continuity plan work for you. 🎧 Tune in now and get ready to transform your approach to success! iTunes: https://lnkd.in/euwAq_Xn Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ebrxTquG Youtube: https://m.youtube.com@AchievingSuccessWithOlivia #achievingsuccess #podcast #businessgrowth #leadership #resilience #businessplanning #businessoperations

"Your current mistake started 7 decisons ago." That was advice given to me in a sitdown with a Colonel when I was about to graduate JAG School. His point was that most bad things could be avoided with better judgment a few decisions earlier. That's how I see #businesscontinuity: the good decision you make earlier...but what also can save you from the bad decisions you already made. This is not uncommon to see in #supplychain - Boeing is responsible for a lot of mistakes that added up to people dying in their planes. The mistake started innocuously with a culture shift that went towards profit over quality. Instead of everything being done in-house, Boeing started contracting out to third parties...who were not limited in their sub-contracting out to other parties. Many decisions later, there basically is no quality control. A lot of businesses do not put an emphasis on #resilience. A lot of time the priority is making money or what will make more money. That is very short sighted as you need a business that can operate to make money. Marketing doesn't help with that. The decision to not invest in or promote business continuity takes an organization down a track of "it can wait" or "it's not that important" or "we're fine, it won't happen here" if it is even given that much consideration at all. That one decision is what leads business owners down a path 7 decisions later to an ugly problem that may well wind up killing their business. Coming back from a mistake is an option for some. You take some lumps but you learn for next time. You could also rate yourself a success for having survived, but be a better success next time - one without stress, wasted time, high emotions, and even more risk. Secure. Survive. Thrive. For more on this and other topics, visit and subscribe to the blog on the EaaS website. #businessresilience #businessgrowth #smallbusiness #businessowner