Crisis and Management

It’s weird how reading a particular bit of news can trigger a chain of thought and recollections about similar incidents and news in the past. I can say this with a certain degree of conviction, as a small story of an airplane nose landing gear malfunction reminded me of several similar stories — all of [...]

It was not exactly a pleasant surprise when I opened the newspaper this morning. Among the first that grabbed my attention was the news that global banking giant Citigroup is readying a round of cost cuts that could result in as many as 15,000 job losses.
Reminded me of Ford Motors’ announcement of 38,000 job [...]

When unexpected events, interruptions, problems, or emergencies dictate your priorities and actions, it’s ‘management by crisis.’
The unexpected is to be expected in every project — even in a routine, well oiled lifestyle. And when that becomes a reality, effective crisis management becomes an essential skill and important best practice.
Sometimes the key lies in reacting quickly [...]

An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 shook central Japan hours ago at 9:42 a.m. local time. Television footage from the quake zone showed buildings shaking violently. A tsunami warning was immediately issued along the west coast of the main island of Honshu.
Perhaps the most important part of the tsunami early warning system is how [...]

A computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account worth $38 billion. Gone. Vanished. Disappeared.
Just to be doubly sure, he reformatted the backup drive as well.
Authorities looked up their third line of defense - backup tapes. Mother of holy cows, they were unreadable.
“Nobody [...]

The nose gear of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines A310 aircraft with 229 people on board broke down during takeoff in Dubai on Monday, injuring 14 passengers. The aircraft blew its front tire or the front landing gear collapsed as the jet was taxiing.
As a result, Dubai airport - the hub for Emirates airways - was [...]

Alright guys, I don’t wanna keep you in any suspense. The blog vanished because genius me deleted it!
Well, the story goes that I was playing super smart — I was trying to install the news-making Drupal CMS on a new website on the same server, and ran into a bunch a problems (imagine getting bombarded [...]

I was browsing the Web casually last evening, and clicked on Crisis and Management. And there was nothing - I got the dreaded 404 Page Not Found error. I logged into the File Manager on cPanel, and once again, nothing. The whole blog folder had vanished. Just like that.
Well, rocket science and mySQL mean more [...]