We are only human. We cannot plan for everything, not everything is foreseeable, but we do learn from history do we not? In every seminar you attend for Disaster Recover or Business Continuity, you probably threw your nose up at the price offering that was mention as well. Why should we have two sets of everything? I don’t want to even pay for the one I have. For any IT department that’s treated like the companies Cancer, you know EXACTLY what I mean. This is usually the case until its too late… Disaster Recovery is one of those subjects that many technicians pay no attention to.
Leadership Lessons from the Pearl Harbor Disaster
One strategy for achieving your full leadership potential is to study history, and learn from the mistakes of others. I recently read At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, the definitive 889-page study of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The bountiful human errors of leadership suggest lessons for leaders that may help you prevent your competitors from catching you and your company off guard and asleep.