Crisis Management

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A 74-Year-Old Wreck Just Explained Why Your Safety Briefing Exists

A 74-Year-Old Wreck Just Explained Why Your Safety Briefing Exists Last month a sonar drone found the wreckage of a Pan American Airways aircraft two thousand feet down off Puerto Rico. The Clipper Endeavor had been missing since 11 April 1952, when it lost several engines shortly after take-off and went into the Atlantic with […]

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Mont Blanc and the French Alps, the destination behind a lesson in contingency planning

None of It Was Mine to Fix: What a Trip to the Alps Taught Me About Contingency Planning

None of It Was Mine to Fix: What a Trip to the Alps Taught Me About Contingency Planning I’ve just got back from a few days in the Alps, and the getting there and back was, in its own small way, a masterclass in exactly the thing I spend my working life advising other people

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What the Sats Marking Crisis Tells Us About Third-Party Contract Handovers

What the Sats Marking Crisis Tells Us About Third-Party Contract Handovers Every July, Year 6 pupils across England find out how they did in their Sats. This year, a lot of schools found out how their exam board did instead, and the answer wasn’t good. Pearson took over the £180 million Sats marking contract from

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