First of all, if you’re not preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse, you’re just not thinking straight. 🙂 A few years ago Vampires were cool; then it seems like I woke up one day and everyone was into Zombies. I must be getting old Davina — I really can’t keep up with which members of the undead are trending.

You make a great point about external publicity factors! No matter what you do, a large group of people (influential and not) will pass judgement on how you should have done X and Y. I read the same stuff you do, and there are a lot of folks that are just clueless about business. Unfortunately, that has to be taken into account more nowadays.

It’s one of those shows that’s hard to turn off!

Yeah, say that five times fast!

If people didn’t prepare for rare events, you wouldn’t have a job! But it’s the uninsurable business situations that are tough to deal with but not worth focusing on that trip up organizations.

There’s a difference in planning and overplanning, being prepared and being armed, ready for a Zombie apocalypse. Bill’s right – you plan in more broad terms – no building to work in today and move from there; you leave the why (flooded water pipes vs. alien invasion) on the table, maybe don’t try to map out a ‘perfect’ fix for every scenario, but one that works for most, for now. FWIW.

They want to be over prepared so someday they can say ‘I told you so.’

There is a happy medium; part of our premise is to ask ‘what happens if you don’t show up tomorrow,’ or ‘what if your building is gone?’ At least you should have an A B C plan that somebody knows who to contact, where to get info, and you don’t have the deer in the headlights look. No preparation at all is usually not a good recipe either.