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Survival precedes growth. So, what’s essential for survival? Many businesses shine with ‘incident response’. No worries. It matters less where we start, it matters more that we start to work systemically on all 7 measures.
Leadership: Engaging people as a system of sense-making and advocacy, with clear directions and controls. Now, it’s less about the person at the top.
Communicate and coordinate: Transparency and honesty are crucial. Act with one aim (survival), communicate intention widely and variations immediately.
Manage risk: Especially the interdependencies holding things together as a functioning whole.
Protect critical functions. If you don’t know what’s critical, conduct a failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) before something breaks.
Protect critical competencies and develop a surge capacity, apprenticing people from non-essential functions.
Keep incident response capabilities active. Your people will recognise and fill cracks autonomically and propagate higher levels of auto immune response.
Institutionalise learning. Leaders are lead learners. We show people the adaptive behaviour we expect from them.
Seven measures of survival – Always on!
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