Let’s think differently about this work.
Stop planning, start programming.
Author of Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building an Unconquerable Organization (Routledge, 2022)
A practical case for readiness as a capability your people carry.
Brendan MonahanMBCI, CBCP · Chair, ASIS Crisis Management & Business Continuity Community
Brendan Monahan provides Crisis Management 2.0 insights that go beyond traditional preparedness and response approaches. A well written and visionary guide for handling crises of the future.
The position
Planning is learning, and it never stops
The standard playbook treats crisis work as a document problem: write a better plan, tighten the hierarchy, wait for the call. That model breaks the moment reality gets messy. The organizations that hold together treat readiness as a capability their people carry, so when the plan runs out, they can still decide and act. This book makes that case. The one-pager is how you start.
The framework
Becoming Unconquerable
A one-page operating model for deciding and acting when the plan runs out. When the unexpected happens, readiness is a capability your whole organization carries. It starts with three questions, asked out loud: