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Crisis Management Update: Managing your business through change and disruption
This week's guide to Crisis Management
 
This week's email features a look at Avoiding the coming crisis caused by government loans to businesses; Many companies unprepared to handle insider cyberattacks, survey finds; The 'morning huddle:' short and sweet -- and powerful; Company culture a key defense against cyberattacks; In times of crisis, the law becomes a balancing act.
 
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Avoiding the coming crisis caused by government loans to businesses
There is a widespread push in many federal agencies to investigate small businesses that borrowed funds from the Small Business Authority and/or the Payroll Protection Program (PPP). Small businesses as well as their owners now need protection against governmental agencies that have turned against those small businesses they claimed they were trying to help.
 
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Many companies unprepared to handle insider cyberattacks, survey finds
Nearly half of companies surveyed find it impossible or very difficult to prevent an insider attack at its earliest stage, while less than a third believe their organizations are very or highly effective in preventing leaks of sensitive information.
 
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The ‘morning huddle’: short and sweet — and powerful
The morning huddle is something I have discovered to be a powerful and yet really simple method of improving my practice. While it brings numerous benefits, its principal benefit for me is that it creates and maintains daily alignment in my firm.
 
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Company culture a key defense against cyberattacks, experts say
Many cyber experts are all in on a concept known as “psychological security.” As defined in a recent column in Forbes, psychological security is the idea that cybersecurity issues are largely caused by behavioral or cultural habits within a company.
 
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In times of crisis, the law becomes a balancing act
Every law and every regulation invariably obstruct liberty, and the challenge in a constitutional democracy is balancing the majoritarian interests of the community with the minority interests of the individual. In times of crisis, such as the 9-11 attacks of 20 years ago and the pandemic we are combatting right now, that challenge becomes a difficult and delicate balancing act.
 
 

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