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Summary: Practical and Insightful
Review: Disaster recovery planning is traditionally focused on finding an alternative worksite, getting the necessary computer systems back up and running and giving employees the equipment they need to get back to work. Unfortunately, the employees themselves have often been overlooked or treated like any other resource necessary to get the job done. It generally takes an actual crisis to expose this falicy and point out to management and disaster recovery planners how very different the human element really is. This book is by far the best "How To Do It" book to come out in years on this most important of issues in disaster recovery planning and crisis management. It is laid out in a logical and progressive manner and leaves no stone unturned in addressing the most important issues of how do we get the people back to work. No tricks here, no management prospective, just genuine concern for the physical, mental, and emotional well- being of our fellow human beings. This is a must-read if you're serious about doing a complete job in the area of disaster recovery planning and crisis management.
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Summary: A Winning Book
Review: I picked this book up because it looked like an interesting approach to a timely business topic. It turned out to be an excellent "how to" book in a format that is applicable to real life. It is obvious that the author has extensive experience and expertise in crisis management. He has imparted that knowledge to the reader in an easily read and organized fashion. The author's description of a simple "tool" to increase crisis management effectiveness was especially new and innovative for me. This book is one I would recommend to business colleagues who may have the responsibilty for handling crisis events associated with work.
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Summary: A Winning Book
Review: In our current times of economic, social and political uncertainty, being prepared to respond to the "human side" of a crisis can only be a win-win solution for a business as well as its employees. Mr. Blythe's book is a excellent resource for executing a crisis response in the workplace as well as a guide to developing a crisis preparedness plan. The book isn't cluttered with theory that needs to be "wadded through" in order to get to practical information. The manner in which the book is organized provides managers with a step-by-step process for both crisis response and crisis preparedness. The insights he provides from his experiences in the corporate world were very helpful. Many other books only examine crisis response, in Blindsided, Mr. Blythe not only gives the nuances of how to respond after a crisis, but provides useful information and challenging questions in designing a preparedness plan. His message of being proactive rather than reactive rings true for any business that truly doesn't want to be blindsided.
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Summary: A Must Read for Any Manager
Review: In the past it seems companies have built crisis plans around tangible assets of the company and how to deal with the media while failing to tend to the very heart of the company- its employees. Bruce Blythe's book carefully prepares managers how to deal with their employees when the unthinkable happens. Blindsided also serves as an excellect reference to guide managers through the stages necessary to prepare for crisis situations. Every manager owes it to thier employees to read this book and be able to respond when a crisis strikes.
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Summary: Cutting Edge
Review: Mr. Blythe has taken a complex subject and provided managers with a practical, cutting edge guide for the management of a crisis. He takes the reader through a process that addresses crisis management from a planning & preparedness stage through the use of response services. This book is a "must read" for all managers - new or experienced with the topic.
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Summary: Cutting Edge
Review: Mr. Blythe has taken a complex subject and provided managers with a practical, cutting edge guide for the management of a crisis. He takes the reader through a process that addresses crisis management from a planning & preparedness stage through the use of response services. This book is a "must read" for all managers - new or experienced with the topic.
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Summary: Blindsided is a great tool.
Review: This book opens the questions that all managers need to address during a time of crisis. This format can now assist managers before the crisis happens. It provides some effective hands on steps to follow which makes management much easier in a time of chaos. The encouragement of simulations and practice for perfection is vital. Examining the potential for problems and vulnerabilities is often overlooked in management. This book provides some good suggestions for identifying and correcting likely problems.
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Summary: Practical and Insightful
Review: This is a terrific book that will help anyone in a management position better prepare for a crisis. I believe it is the best book I have read on the subject - most tend to be dry and technical, but this was actually hard to put down. The combination of advice from actual crisis Mr. Blythe has responded to along with a systematic approach to preparing for a crisis before it happens is both practical and insightful.
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Summary: Helps prepare your company to handle unforeseen disasters.
Review: This is a very unique and practical book with a singular purpose - to help you answer the question from a workplace preparedness perspective: 'What should your company do when something highly unexpected happens - like the September 11 attacks or a Hurricane?'This book is full of practical advice that is split into two parts. The first part deals with Response and the second part deals with Preparedness. None of us imagines that something bad could happen at our workplace but everyday it happens in somebody's workplace. So why can't it happen in yours? And the answer is that it can happen anywhere so it really helps to be prepared. As you read the book, you will encounter lists after lists of a step by step approach to a particular issue associated with disasters at your workplace. For example - pages 30 to 33 address how to immediately respond to such a disastrous event with a checklist of descriptions followed by a giant checklist of all the actions you need to take. I was at first hesitant to read this book as I didn't really see it as something requiring my immediate attention but if I waited till I needed this book, it would be too late. So I decided to finally pick up this book and started skimming it. That's when I realized that one can't afford to wait to read a book of this nature. You are better off reading it right away so you don't have to scramble to find it when you really need it! This book is about being prepared so if you own a business or manage a workplace this book is necessary reading. The author is an experienced Crisis Management professional that has helped businesses handle many high profile disasters like the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and Hurricane Andrew. So the information is coming from a highly credible source who now has over a 1,000 clients that utilize his services.
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Summary: Helps prepare your company to handle unforeseen disasters.
Review: This is a very unique and practical book with a singular purpose - to help you answer the question from a workplace preparedness perspective: `What should your company do when something highly unexpected happens - like the September 11 attacks or a Hurricane?' This book is full of practical advice that is split into two parts. The first part deals with Response and the second part deals with Preparedness. None of us imagines that something bad could happen at our workplace but everyday it happens in somebody's workplace. So why can't it happen in yours? And the answer is that it can happen anywhere so it really helps to be prepared. As you read the book, you will encounter lists after lists of a step by step approach to a particular issue associated with disasters at your workplace. For example - pages 30 to 33 address how to immediately respond to such a disastrous event with a checklist of descriptions followed by a giant checklist of all the actions you need to take. I was at first hesitant to read this book as I didn't really see it as something requiring my immediate attention but if I waited till I needed this book, it would be too late. So I decided to finally pick up this book and started skimming it. That's when I realized that one can't afford to wait to read a book of this nature. You are better off reading it right away so you don't have to scramble to find it when you really need it! This book is about being prepared so if you own a business or manage a workplace this book is necessary reading. The author is an experienced Crisis Management professional that has helped businesses handle many high profile disasters like the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and Hurricane Andrew. So the information is coming from a highly credible source who now has over a 1,000 clients that utilize his services.
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