While twitter is aflutter with Charlie Sheen, the world struggles with the devastation of Japan. Until today, Miyagi (the prefecture wherein Sendai sits) was mostly known to America as a surname of a thoughtful karate-kid mentor from Okinawa portrayed by the late Pat Morita. Miyagi will now be etched into our temporal lobes, aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Some things are real, and we will be feeling the pain together with Japan for a half-life. In Japan recently, I was struck by the level of readiness – in signage, egress, emergency storage, security procedures, drills – the collectivist ethos of the Japanese to each do their part for the whole. And while it seemed, at first, overkill, it truly exemplified real “action” drawn from historic learning. The critical “take-away” is strategic preparation, even in the face of forces as awe-inspiring as mother nature. What is your strategy? What is “our” strategy? How are our homes and communities prepared? Water? Foodstuffs? Will we be prompted?
Posted on: 03-12-2011 Posted in: General