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The AI Labs Just Warned You About AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks. Here Is What They Left Out.

Bryan Strawser — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:02:53 +0000

Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic signed the same letter. So did Microsoft, Google, AWS, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard, Visa, AT&T, and more than a hundred other organizations. The letter, A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense, says AI-enabled cyber attacks “will become far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months, and that …

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A Return-to-Office Mandate Is a Tell About Your Leadership, Not Your Strategy

Bryan Strawser — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:48:25 +0000

Here is the uncomfortable finding most CEOs will skip past this week. New research from Wharton, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, analyzed six years of data to understand why some leaders defend remote and hybrid work while others kill it. The researchers surveyed thousands of executives, managers, and supervisors across a long …

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The Resilience Maturity Gap Isn’t a Software Problem

Bryan Strawser — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:26:34 +0000

Fusion Risk Management just published five years of market data, and buried inside it is an admission you rarely hear from a software company: the tools are not the constraint. Adoption is. The Enterprise Resilience Report draws on 4,571 intake conversations with 1,765 organizations evaluating resilience software between 2021 and 2025. It is vendor data …

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Executive Buy-In for Business Continuity: Being Liked Is Not the Same as Being Believed

Bryan Strawser — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:48:09 +0000

Your CEO probably likes you. That is not the same as believing your program pays for itself. Two recent research studies about chief marketing officers explain this gap better than anything published in our own field, and they explain why executive buy-in for business continuity keeps eroding even when the relationship with leadership feels strong. …

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Your Crisis Decision History Is a Single Point of Failure

Bryan Strawser — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:14:53 +0000

Hour three of a ransomware response. Someone on the call says what someone always says. “Didn’t we work through this in the spring?” They did. There was a tabletop in April that ran this exact scenario. The team reached a decision on the payment question, wrote down the criteria, and named who owned the call. …

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Crisis Leadership When the Playbook Fails: Dutch Leonard’s Framework, Six Years Later

Bryan Strawser — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:14:33 +0000

In March 2020, days into the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Harvard Business School put Professor Dutch Leonard on its Managing Through Crisis webcast to answer the question every executive was suddenly asking: how do you lead when nobody knows what to do? I recently went back and rewatched that conversation. Six years on, it is the …

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Geopolitical Scenario Planning Is the Easy Part. Exercises Are Where Leaders Break.

Bryan Strawser — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:09:42 +0000

A McKinsey survey published this month found something I see in nearly every engagement: organizations will happily study the future, but they will not put their leaders inside it. The numbers are blunt. Fewer than a third of the executives McKinsey surveyed call their geopolitical risk management “mature.” A majority, 53 percent, say scenario planning …

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Stop Overcomplicating Your Resilience Program

Bryan Strawser — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:06:43 +0000

Most resilience programs don’t fail because the plans are wrong. They fail because the people running them make the work more complicated than it needs to be, and never tie it back to what the business actually cares about. Over the past years, I’ve watched multiple experienced, capable executives run resilience programs inside large, complex …

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Resilience Is a Profit Center, Not a Cost Center

Bryan Strawser — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:16:36 +0000

Jackie King, executive director of Ibec Global, recently argued that resilience is a profit issue, not just a risk issue (per Business Plus). She is right. And most boardrooms still do not act like it. Here is the claim, stated plainly. Resilience is a profit center. The work you fund to keep operating through disruption …

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Four Days in the Office Won’t Fix a Product Problem

Bryan Strawser — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:39:35 +0000

General Mills announced yesterday that most of its North American headquarters employees will be in the office four days a week starting September 8. The current return to office mandate is three. CEO Jeff Harmening tied the change directly to disappointing business performance. The implicit logic: if our people were in the office one more …

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