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Due to COVID…(or something else)

December 16th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips This week’s world-wide excuse for not doing your job continues. Due to an excuse, I will no longer be doing all of my job. I will continue to receive all of my salary (good for me), but don’t expect all of my efforts. It is pretty nice receiving all of my salary […]

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Tags: Emergency · Excuses · Expectations · Humility · Integrity · Remote Work · Work

Emergency Flashers

March 23rd, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Despite what I have noticed the past couple of years, declaring an emergency does not allow us to do whatever we want. I’ve noticed something about folks and those emergency flashers on automobiles. If you turn on your emergency flashers, you can do anything you want. Great things these emergency flashers, huh? […]

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Tags: Accountability · Appearances · Emergency · Planning

The Clipboard and the Pencil…and the Hurricane

November 1st, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Unfortunate events provide yet another great reason to use a clipboard and a pencil. My records indicate that this is the fourth blog post I have written about the clipboard and the pencil. The gist is that these old, simple tools are still quite valuable. Hence, we might reconsider a few other […]

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Tags: Adapting · Emergency · Internet · Learning · Notebook · Simple · Technology · Tools

Emergency Operations Centers

October 25th, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Most “Emergency Operations Centers” function to show that the emergency operations center has electricity. Does that describe yours? A recent serious weather event caused me to interact with an Emergency Operations Center or EOC. The website for that place proclaimed quite proudly how it was built to withstand such serious weather events. […]

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Tags: Accountability · Communication · Emergency · Purpose · Systems

Wrapped in Plastic

September 13th, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We decide that, “We will stop this and never do it again.” That holds until we discover “this” and “it” are necessary. I flew to California recently. On the flight, instead of giving us a bag of pretzels, they gave us a clear plastic bad that had a small clear plastic bottle […]

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Tags: Change · Decide · Emergency · Time · Virus · Wealth

Lack of Planning, Emergencies, and All Such Things

April 8th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Nothing new here. Lack of planning still brings emergency responses and all sort of bad reactions. I suppose we have to be reminded of this from time to time. There are various ways to say it like: Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part or […]

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Tags: Commitment · Decide · Emergency · Planning