#emergencymanager — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #emergencymanager, aggregated by home.social.
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A standout: "resilience is best understood as the sum of numerous individual decisions and strategies. It is neither inherent nor immutable, and there is no universal strategy that reliably works across all types of crises"
The summary also hints at social ties & resilience. For my money, if I'm a #Crisis manager for business or an #EmergencyManager in my hometown, I'm going to play up the *community*. Easier said than done, I realize...but a worthy investment.
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-survive-crises-archaeologists-common-resilience.amp
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I've often noted that #rural #EmergencyManagement is NOT urban EM with fewer resources. Rural risk is different. Rural capacity is different. Rural #preparedness & response is different.
#CrisisLeadership #CrisisManagement #EmergencyManager
https://dailyyonder.com/the-rural-americans-too-poor-for-federal-flood-protections/2024/08/12/
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My research on sharing #leadership when responding to #disasters is in this same vein. I focus less on inspiration and more on encouraging subordinates in a command structure to speak up and contribute ideas.
Yet, the premise of this article holds true: people matter.
Even (and especially) in a #crisis, treating people like people matters.
#emergencymanagement #emergencymanager #crisismanagement #crisisleadership
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Quick read, but thoughtful piece covering a lot of ground. Most interesting to #emergencymanager types are the severe weather, #climate, and security independent variables along with #BusinessContinuity and cybersecurity as dependent variables.
#crisismanagement #crisisleadership
https://www.newsweek.com/four-trends-poised-shape-your-business-2024-1869303
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My new favorite response to a question on a public survey:
Q: To what do you think this increase/decrease (to severity or frequency of hazard occurrences) can be attributed?
A: The fucked up reality show that is politics.
#emergencymanagement #hazardmitigation #riskreduction #emergencyplanning #emergencymanager
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The thing I like the most about #emergencymanagement #planning is the people. Good planning meetings energize me.
And it is possible to have a good planning meeting!
I don't get hung up on the agenda. I ask people what keeps them up at night. When you listen, and then design the process around their issues (to the extent possible), people participate.
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I found this series of children's books; how did I not know these existed?!
I bought the one written around the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption (which happened on my second birthday). What a great little story!
Tarshis does a wonderful job of writing about the disaster in an informative but not gratuitously scary way. Well done. Be still my #emergencymanager heart.
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Earlier this week, I read an article about "the #crisis as opportunity."
I understand it's a goal for businesses to survive & thrive during/after a crisis. I understand the notion of building back better.
Yet, there's a fine line between being opportunistic and shoving an agenda down impactee's throats.
#emergencymanagement #emergencymanager #crisisleadership #crisismanagement #change #leadership
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Through practice, a team not only becomes comfortable working under pressure...its members become comfortable working with * one another * (my emphasis).
Learning first-hand about your team members' strengths is invaluable. A person's actual skills aren't always captured by a position title.
#emergencymanagement #emergencymanager #crisismanagement #crisisleadership
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Michigan still allows emergency takeovers of local governments. Is it finally time to reconsider?
In Detroit, the past was all too present. Houses, businesses and schools that once supported nearly 2 million people sat vacant. Old debts forced city leaders into impossible choices. There was not enough money for public safety, not enough for streetlights, not enough for parks, not enough for education — not enough, period.
In March 2013, an attorney named Kevyn Orr was appointed to take charge. He’d never received a vote and had never been vetted by the mayor or City Council. And yet, he assumed all the power that otherwise would be held by the mayor and council, as well as additional powers, such as the ability to unilaterally sell city assets. While local officials could attempt to veto certain decisions, the veto itself was subject to state approval.
Four months later, with the governor’s signoff, Orr led Detroit into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Orr had this authority because of Michigan’s expansive system for intervening in distressed cities and schools. His appointment by state officials as Detroit’s emergency manager intensified a debate about power and democracy that continues to this day.
In Michigan, the state has an unusual amount of discretion in initiating oversight, and its emergency managers have an unusual amount of authority, according to researchers. Compared with those of other states, Michigan’s takeover powers have also been among the most widely used. Since 2000, under various versions of the law, 10 Michigan municipalities have come under the control of at least one emergency manager. So did several public school districts, including Detroit’s.
The results were mixed and showed a clear trend, some studies found, toward intervening in majority-Black towns. One recent study found that the race and economic status of residents and the city’s reliance on state revenue were better predictors of a municipal takeover than financial distress indicators.
By 2017, 56% of Michigan’s Black residents had lived in cities governed by emergency managers or other state oversight measures, according to a widely cited lawsuit filed in federal court by a coalition of community leaders against Michigan’s governor and treasurer. Just under 3% of white people had the same experience, the complaint said. (The suit, which sought to overturn the law based on equal protection and voting rights, was later dismissed.)
#USPol #Politics #Detroit #Flint #Michigan #MIPolitics #EmergencyManager #Whitmer #MichiganAdvance
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I really enjoyed reading the blog that was put together by the undergrads that @samlmontano took to #NewOrleans. Great to see future #EmergencyManager leaders getting real world experience and a backstage pass to #EmergencyManagement in #Louisiana.
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I really enjoyed reading the blog that was put together by the undergrads that @samlmontano took to #NewOrleans. Great to see future #EmergencyManager leaders getting real world experience and a backstage pass to #EmergencyManagement in #Louisiana.
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I really enjoyed reading the blog that was put together by the undergrads that @samlmontano took to #NewOrleans. Great to see future #EmergencyManager leaders getting real world experience and a backstage pass to #EmergencyManagement in #Louisiana.
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I really enjoyed reading the blog that was put together by the undergrads that @samlmontano took to #NewOrleans. Great to see future #EmergencyManager leaders getting real world experience and a backstage pass to #EmergencyManagement in #Louisiana.
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"Sudden crises spark fear and preoccupation with threat. People wonder: Are we going to be okay? In sustained crises, persistent challenges leave people wondering instead: Why bother?"
This is a quick, interesting read delving into the evolving nature of #crisis. It focuses on the private sector, but there are public sector & community lessons as well.
#crisisleadership #emergencymanagement #emergencymanager #leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #LeadershipMatters
https://hbr.org/2023/06/leading-through-a-sustained-crisis-requires-a-different-approach
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Paraphrase of the day: The utopia of the civil defense planner is that everybody has a role and is trained to perform it.
#emergencymanagement #emergencymanager #crisismanagement
~ Attributed to Barton, Communities in Disaster (1969)
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(This is a thread; please see the previous posts.)
To adhere to ICS is (only) to deploy the framework when necessary.
Slotting someone into an ICS role with no prior leadership or managerial development invites failure.
No matter how pretty the wire diagram.
#emergencymanagement #emergencymanager
(Friendly discussion welcome.)
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Working with many small, often rural communities has led to me to ponder similar questions.
Interesting ideas ripe for pushing a necessary conversation forward.
#emergencymanagement #emergencymanager #preparedness #emergencyplanning
#risk #riskreduction #hazardmitigationhttps://www.rand.org/blog/2020/10/creating-the-right-incentives-for-state-and-local-governments.html
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When we engage our stakeholders in #emergencyplanning, how often do we - as #emergencymanagement practitioners - dominate the discussion as opposed to facilitate it?
#emergencymanager #crisismanagement #crisisleadership
https://suzimcalpine.com/how-to-facilitate-as-opposed-to-dominate-your-meetings/
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Matching requirements are a significant challenge, particularly in #rural areas. See it all day, every day on mitigation & response-oriented grants.
Skin in the game - for #mitigation, #preparedness...all of it - but the notes in the article about a more equitable match methodology are spot on.
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Matching requirements are a significant challenge, particularly in #rural areas. See it all day, every day on mitigation & response-oriented grants.
Skin in the game - for #mitigation, #preparedness...all of it - but the notes in the article about a more equitable match methodology are spot on.
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The author borrows heavily from Boin and colleagues on the "five things," but I will say the adage that #crisismanagement is about prepareness. & #crisisleadership about adaptability is a good one.