The One Percent Doctrine: Prepared When Things Go Wrong...

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril. Stanley A. McChrystal
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There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril. Stanley A. McChrystal
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There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril. Stanley A. McChrystal
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"There is no avoiding the realities of the information age.  Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all.  Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril."  --Stanley A. McChrystal

In David Suskind's book The One Percent Doctrine we are reminded that planners need to continue to focus on the 1%.  The "One Percent" doctrine considers threats with even a 1% likelihood, to be treated as certainties.  How proactive are you and your organization?

Do you think you're spending too much time with your team planning and training? You haven't.

Success in your organization doesn't happen because everything goes according to the plan. It happens because you were prepared when things go wrong.

The organizations whose team has proactively planned for every possible scenario and trained together in live simulations, will become the most successfully resilient to uncertain change.

Incidents of different severity and frequency are happening around you and your organization every day. Would your employees know what an incident looks like, let alone know what to do next to mitigate the risk to them and the organization?

Even if Mr. Suskind's book is somewhat critical of the US Government, looking in our own corporate mirror of preparedness, should be enough to get most executives rethinking their resource allocations for the current and future budget for planning, rehearsing and exercising for uncertain events:

Analysts at two security firms, Crowdstrike and Dragos, tell WIRED that they've seen a new campaign of targeted phishing emails sent to a variety of US targets last week from a hacker group known by the names APT33, Magnallium, or Refined Kitten and widely believed to be working in the service of the Iranian government. Dragos named the Department of Energy and US national labs as some of the half-dozen targeted organizations. A third security firm, FireEye, independently confirmed that it's seen a broad Iranian phishing campaign targeting both government agencies and private sector companies in the US and Europe, without naming APT33 specifically. None of the companies had any knowledge of successful intrusions.