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Business Readiness Process (BRP): Building Resilience for Modern Markets

Richard Martin July 8, 2024 No Comments

Business Readiness is vital for today’s leaders and organizations.

Things Can Happen for No Reason at All

Richard Martin September 10, 2017 No Comments

Humans have a propensity to see causality and correlations where there is just coincidence. Most things happen for no reason at all. It’s easy to see patterns where there are none, especially in nature. If you see linkages where there are none, you can drive yourself crazy with anxiety and paranoia. Things happen. Sometimes they bunch up in time and place. Other times they are more or less spread out.

The North Korean Nuclear Threat

Richard Martin September 8, 2017 1 Comment

Strategic Readiness Bulletin Number 2 – 8 September 2017 By Richard Martin, founder and president, Alcera Consulting Inc. Richard Martin issues Strategic Readiness Bulletins on an as

Readiness Aide-Memoire

Richard Martin September 3, 2017 No Comments

Here is an easy to use four-step to help in readiness for anything, any time.

Realism and Readiness

Richard Martin August 20, 2017 No Comments

Readiness depends on gaining and refining as exact a picture of reality as possible. Without a realistic picture, we can’t know if our preparation is-literally-realistic. Our plans and readiness measures may be highly detailed and precise, but we may end up being precisely prepared for the wrong things.

Asylum Seekers: Is It a Crisis Yet?

Richard Martin August 13, 2017 No Comments

Back in March I put out a Strategic Readiness Bulletin titled “Is Canada Facing an Incipient Refugee Crisis?” The situation has evolved to the point where the Canadian Forces have been tasked to set up a temporary reception centre near the Quebec-US border.

Basic Readiness Principles

Richard Martin August 6, 2017 No Comments

Action is a vector. You can get to your objectives earlier by combining the right direction of movement with fast speed of execution.

Readiness and the Time Dimension

Richard Martin July 9, 2017 No Comments

Business leaders must constantly decide on how much time to devote to future planning versus present action. The needs of day-to-day management and decision-making tend to swamp us as leaders and managers. We get caught up in immediate, tactical issues, and lose sight of the bigger picture, where we are ultimately headed, and what we will do once they we there.

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

Richard Martin June 25, 2017 No Comments

Canadians spend most of the year fighting against the weather, so when it gets nice for about 2 months in the summer, we tend to let things ride a bit more. Unfortunately, a lot of people kick back so much that they put everything on hold.

Confirmation Bias

Richard Martin June 18, 2017 No Comments

To a certain extent, we can never come at a situation with a fully neutral attitude. There is always some predisposition or prior belief colouring our interpretation of evidence and context. We can even say that “facts” depend in large measure on the perspective and attitude we bring to our view of the world.

Business Readiness Process (BRP): Building Resilience for Modern Markets

Things Can Happen for No Reason at All

The North Korean Nuclear Threat

Readiness Aide-Memoire

Realism and Readiness

Asylum Seekers: Is It a Crisis Yet?

Basic Readiness Principles

Readiness and the Time Dimension

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

Confirmation Bias

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