Issues - regardless of scale - often acquire similar responses when the systems are complex. This post looks at components of complex system issue response and reasoning behind it.
Category: Human
Taliban and Cyber Considerations
With the Taliban back in control in Afghanistan, and with the departing US forces having left behind a lot of equipment and hardware, the CTI community is keeping an eye on the inevitable shifts in cyber threats arising from or involving Afghanistan.
On Challenging Rationality
Whether rational, rationalized, emotional, irrational, or intuitive, our behaviours are signals to others about where we are operating from. Taking time to clarify your understanding of your internal mechanisms at play will significantly improve your messaging to the external world. Messaging as revealed by your behaviours and decisions.
3 Surprising Building Blocks for OpRes
Developing operational resilience - an organisation's ability to continue functioning through failure - requires reconsidering what brings the effect of shock and volatility closer to zero. Looking to the relative resilience in place twenty or more years ago, the need for analogue solutions in digital spaces becomes apparent.
Authenticity at Scale
Conversations on authenticity in professional environments are becoming more common, recognising a need to address inauthenticities in business. The challenge is the degree of misinterpretation fostered, as considering certain factors reveal consistency requiring adjustment depending on scale. The Dark Knight's Joker will help demonstrate.
On Leadership
BLUF - This is merely observation of leadership qualities I've seen exemplified. A true leader displays characteristics often overlooked (or paid lip service) by others. The purpose here is to capture some of what was learned, remembering what counts as we move forward. -scl
On Engaging All Digital Senses
Adjusting for disability inclusion challenges the signals used in relaying data. Recognising need for a variety of signals otherwise not available gives options to create new, complimentary sensory platforms otherwise not considered - redefining how we engage with our digital landscape.
Resetting VCAT
If we focus on how to get the best out of the team without focusing on the team, we look at process and results without looking at team dynamics. The difference between liking what you do logically, and loving what you do on a deeper emotional level is rooted in the team having good dynamics and feeling like they are part of a purposeful whole. Resetting VCAT is a way we build and re-build the team.
Pearl Steps
It's said you can't step into the same river twice, and oysters create layers of beauty encapsulating threat. Lessons from both in the growth of individuals and organisations.
Building Remote Esprit de Corps
Creating and maintaining a team in remote environment is challenging. Finding leaders who can adapt to circumstances we've had over the last year to effectively build disparate teams and missions, even more so. In establishing mutual trust to work as teams, we must find remote camaraderie - helping people belong when there is no meeting space.
