“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In honor of those who have...

"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
Stephen R. Covey

Now more than ever the ability to change is critical to business...

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill

Financial performance, either good or bad, is a measurable result of the clarity of a business leaders vision, the execution of the strategy and the effectiveness of the organization (people, processes and technology). Financial numbers reflect how well...

“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”

William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter and print maker. He has quite an extensive Wikipedia page.

“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”

Anonymous

“Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”

Alvin Toffler

He also said, "Society needs people who take care of the elderly and who know how to be compassionate and honest. Society needs people who...

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”    

Maria Robinson

CXO Briefing is edited by Eric Langley 
CEO/Senior Advisor of Strategic Concepts

www.strategic-concepts.us

CXO Briefing Volume 3 Issue 2 for Tuesday January 11th 2011

Data Backup and Server Disaster Recovery: Reducing the High Cost of Downtime

For the past two and a half years businesses (and consumers) have been cutting costs during one of the longest periods of economic contraction in U.S. history. Now that...

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Key differences between Policy and Procedure

There are many terms used in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Some of them overlap and mean the same thing but with subtle differences. This article will define and detail the scope of two of them, Policy and Procedure.

Every business...

Backup and Disaster Recovery: The myth of "set it and forget it"

Not long ago I read the marketing material of one of the large online backup services promoting their “set it and forget it” service capability. This sounds like a great idea. Let the software automatically configure your backups to...