Language as a precision instrument
When messages are limited to 144 characters, language must be both precise and concise.
Get out of your comfort zone – A Tail from the Dog Park
To truly make progress in life, you need to move outside your comfort zone.
One small change can improve your emergency message
New research suggests that changing the format of an emergency message can make it more effective.
Two Concepts to Improve Your Emergency Planning
Plans should fit a conceptual framework. These two simple concepts can vastly improve your planning.
Three vital parts of an emergency message
To be effective, your emergency message must answer three basic questions.
Public Safety, Public Morality: Thoughts on the Korean ferry disaster
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Is your emergency plan real?
Like parade armor, your emergency plan may look good but be useless in a crisis.
What a light switch can teach us about ICS
What we expect doesn’t always turn out to be what we get.
Airport security depends on depth
A guest post from aviation security expert Jeff Whitman reinforces the needed for security in depth at airports.
Lost Opportunities: San Francisco’s cistern system in 1906
The 1906 earthquake was bad but the fires that followed were hellish. But did the city of San Francisco really need to burn?