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It started with a cough, headache, and a feeling of general tiredness. Was it the travel? Was it the late night entertaining clients? Perhaps it was just a twenty-four hour bug? You go to your next scheduled client meeting, or conference, or board a plane and fly to another destination or back home. You are feeling better; must have just been the late night with the clients. However, that dry cough still persists. You shrug it off and go on with life. You are not exhibiting any symptoms. You are, however, already a vector spreading a lethal cocktail with each cough and every time you place your hand on a surface after coughing. Soon, you have spread the virus that you are hosting to others around you. Still, no symptoms show. It's just a cough and a few aches that will soon, you are sure, go away.Could this be a scene from the opening chapter of a Michael Crichton thriller? No, but this may be what we experience at the beginning of a pandemic-a flu virus that could affect up to 30 percent of the population....How should business leaders react to this forecast? Should companies begin to develop pandemic plans? Should they begin stockpiling personal protective equipment, such as, gloves, masks, anti-viral medication, decontamination equipment? What are the ethical obligations that a company has to its employees, to their families, and to expats? That's what this book is all about. More Reviews and Recommendations GEARY W. SIKICH is the author of It Can't Happen Here: All Hazards Crisis Management Planning, The Emergency Management Planning Handbook, and Integrated Business Continuity: Maintaining Resilience in Uncertain Times. The author of more than 175 published articles, in journals ranging from Continuity Insights to Supply & Demand Chain Executive, Sikich is the founder and a principal of Logical Management Systems. An internationally recognized speaker and symposium leader, he consults on a regular basis with companies worldwide on continuity, crisis management, and issues of operational resilience. Tags: protecting your business pandemic |
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