Life Journey: Mission Accomplished...

 Remember that particular time and place when you were sitting with family having a coffee or “Hugo Spritz” enjoying the new mission view?

Then it comes over you and that feeling of peace and joy is joined by a few small tear drops…as you lift your sun glasses to wipe them away, and you say a short silent prayer.

Your current happiness and thankfulness is what this life is all about.  After so many years of hard work, challenges at home and in your career it all seems unreal.

You are now on a new mission with your long loved spouse to live your life dreams and explore new experiential learning.

Whether it is in the cities along the rivers in foreign countries or in the mountains in your own USA state does not matter.  Get out there!

"If you are exploring new places, new cultures and establishing new Relationships on your journeys  you are well on your way to continued Results and new Rewards (R3)."

Think back on all the hours you worked and were clocking out after the sun went down in another city.

What about all the quiet hours on airplanes or hotel rooms on weekly travel all alone.

It is now time to focus on what and who you truly love.  To enjoy your new found life experiences and to be so grateful each day.

Think about how you got here and who was by your side each time you were challenged or celebrated.

The older you get in life the more you realize that someone is watching over you.

Experiential learning begins to develop new disciplines and skills that will forever assist you in your life.

What will you learn and who will you learn with?

Surround yourself with all the right people that already have the skills you are pursuing and you will soon achieve the results you are after.

REPEAT.

After enough exercises, evolutions, classes, hops, billets, missions or sessions the rewards will start to appear.

LEARN.

Utilize these rewards in such ways that you are continuously investing them for the future.

REPEAT.

Now look out at your view today and take another sip on that drink.  Raise your cup and look up…

Digital RubiCON: The Fifth Domain...

Operational Risk Management is a continuous process in the context of our rapidly expanding corporate environments. What is one example?

People traveling to emerging markets to explore new business opportunities or new suppliers that will be connected by high speed Internet connections to the supply chain management system. These boundaries of managing operational risk, have not only expanded, they have become invisible.

Ru·bi·con

1. a river in N Italy flowing E into the Adriatic

—Idiom

2. Rubicon, to take a decisive, irrevocable step

This "Digital Rubicon" before us, to take on a more "Active Defense" in navigating the risk across international waters of e-commerce, privacy and legal jurisdictions will forever shape our future.

The decisions made on what constitutes an adversarial attack in the cyber domain, will not be as easy as the dawn of the nuclear age. Policy makers today have to weave the potential implications into a sophisticated decision tree that crosses the complex areas of intelligence, diplomacy, defense, law, commerce, economics and technology.

The new digital "Rule Sets" are currently being defined by not only nation states but the "Non-State" actors who dominate a segment of the global digital domains.

The same kinds of schemes, ploys, communication tactics and strategies are playing out online and what has worked in the physical world, may also work even better in the cyber-centric environment.

Corporations are increasingly under estimating the magnitude of the risk or the speed that it is approaching their front or back door steps.

The private sector is under tremendous oversight by various regulators, government agencies and corporate risk management. Yet the "public-private" "tug-of-war" over information sharing, leaks to the public press and Wikileaks incidents has everyone on full alert.

As the government has outsourced the jobs that will take too long to execute or that the private sector already is an expert, operational risks have begun to soar.

As the private sector tasks morph with the requirements of government you perpetuate the gap for effective risk mitigation and spectacular incidents of failure.

Whether it is the failure of people, processes, systems or some other clandestine event doesn't matter. The public-private paradox will continue as long as the two seek some form of symbiosis.

The symbiotic relationship between a government entity and a private sector supplier must be managed no differently than any other mission critical resource within an unpredictable environment.

Once an organization has determined the vital combination of assets it requires to operate on a daily basis, then it can begin it's quest for enabling enterprise resiliency.

The problem is, most companies still do not understand these complex relationships within the matrix of their business and therefore remain vulnerable.

The only path to gaining that resilient outcome, is to finally cross that "Digital Rubicon" and realize that you no longer can control it.

The first step in any remediation program, is first to admit the problem and to accept the fact that it exists.

Corporate enterprises and governments across the globe are coming to the realization that the only way forward is to cooperate, coordinate and contemplate a new level of trust...