Expect the Unexpected VIII – Top 10 Things to Do to Prepare for a Crisis
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: This is the eighth in our series on preparing your business to weather unexpected events. Read Parts I – VII here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. This week, we discuss the top 10 things businesses should do in preparation for a crisis. Preparedness is everything here – […]
Expect the Unexpected VII – Communicating Your Plan
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: Welcome to the seventh in our series on preparing your business to weather unexpected events. Read Parts I – VI here, here, here, here, here, and here. This week, we discuss in more depth how to communicate your plan. Communicating your plan begins with the plan’s inception. It’s of […]
Expect the Unexpected VI – Testing Your Plan
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: This email is the sixth in our series on preparing your business to weather unexpected events. Read Parts I – V here, here, here, here , and here. This week, we discuss how to test your plan for preparedness, once it is in place. Most failures of businesses’ emergency […]
Expect the Unexpected V – Technological Risks
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: This email is the Fifth in our series on preparing your business to weather the unexpected events that we know will occur. Read Parts I-IV here, here, here, and here. This week, we discuss businesses’ technological risks. Businesses rely increasingly on technology and automated systems; we expect our technology, hardware, […]
Expect the Unexpected IV – Ensuring Business Continuity
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: This is the fourth in our series on preparing your business to weather the unexpected events that we know will occur. Read Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here. This week, we will discuss how business owners can ensure their businesses will continue in the event they are […]
Expect the Unexpected III – Designing Your Response Strategy
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: Welcome to the third in our series on preparing your business to weather the unexpected events that we know will occur. Read Part I here, and Part II here. This week, we discuss how business owners can begin creating an individual preparedness plan. As we’ve discussed in Part II, […]
Expect the Unexpected II – Identifying Your Risks
Last week, we provided a general overview of how businesses can plan for the unexpected; this week, we begin taking a closer look at each step business owners should take when creating their individual preparedness plans. Step 1: Identify Your Risks Each business’s identity is unique, and so are its risks. However, while we can’t foresee […]
What Are Some Things You Can Do in 2021 To Position Yourself and Your Business for a Potential Tax Increase?
With a potential tax increase coming for higher earners, it’s essential to know what you can do to make sure that you and your business are in the best position to navigate it successfully. There are a number of different components involved in a potential tax increase, but whether it affects you positively or negatively […]
Expect the Unexpected – Why a Closely-Held Business Needs to Plan For Contingencies
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: Are chief executives prescient? In a PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ annual survey of executives, 73% of them anticipated facing a crisis for their businesses within the next two to three years. As we navigate our second year of COVID-19, it makes us wonder whether any of them could have anticipated a global pandemic […]
War Stories – Katrina
To Our Valued Clients and Friends: On August 26, 2005, the Friday before Katrina struck, I was on the 21st floor of an office tower across from the Superdome, wrapping up a project for an important client. As I looked out the window on that dreary, rainy day, I began to hear reports of oil […]