by Michael Devers | Mar 2, 2020 | Crisis Prevention, History
Kenesaw Mountain Landis is dead. Happy Chandler is dead. Bart Giamatti is dead. Along with having already taken their final leisurely stroll across the green fields of earth and into the unknown, these three men have a few other things in common. All were...
by Michael Devers | Feb 17, 2020 | Crisis Prevention
The last weekend in January of 2020 was a terrible one for aviation in the United States. Many people know of the helicopter crash on Sunday, January 26th that claimed the lives of NBA Hall-of-Famer Kobe Bryant, his thirteen-year-old daughter, and seven others. Most...
by Michael Devers | Jan 27, 2020 | Crisis Prevention
Every brilliant strategy, each perfectly engineered process, and any flawless safety program can all be unraveled in an instant by one insidious factor: complacency. The gradual erosion of focus and attention to a task that deserves both, complacency threatens every...
by Michael Devers | Jan 14, 2020 | Crisis Prevention, History
Something didn’t smell right. It was 5:45am and a British Petroleum (BP) employee was driving to work along the North Slope of Alaska near the oilfield town of Prudhoe Bay when he noticed an odd odor overpowering the smell of his heater and his truck. He pulled over...
by Michael Devers | Jan 7, 2020 | Crisis Prevention, History
The tension in Tehran was palpable. It could be felt throughout every sector of the city – from the increased security at the airport all the way down to street vendors selling their wares from push carts. Just hours earlier, a number of would-be assassins had been...
by Michael Devers | May 22, 2019 | Crisis Prevention
My wife has a top-level membership with one of the national fitness clubs and a couple of months ago she overheard other members talking about a membership benefit that was being taken away. It was a benefit that my wife had never used, had never even thought about...