This guide has the potential to save businesses and government agencies millions of dollars from lost time and data as a result of an unforeseen crisis. As continuity plans are implemented, top decision-makers can take comfort in knowing that they have done everything they could to safeguard not only their organizations but their most valuable resource, their employees.
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STEVE WHITE Generations can follow this destiny, can stay close to it or depart from it, having thus the capabil... CORNELIU CODREANU Optimistic, expects the best possible outcome from any given situation. Optimists see failures as ex... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘supp... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Many entrepreneurs begin to think about selling their businesses because they have become convinced ... BILL LEE The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they h... ABDULLAH ABDULLAH The Democrats are in exactly the same position as the Sunnis in Iraq. From the very beginning, they ... DAN SCHNUR They made a decision and they wanted to stick by their decision, ... I didn't feel upset about the s... ANTONIO GATES Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they ar... 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great masters, is this, that they... JOSEPH ADDISON It gives them an incentive to market the film aggressively to their constituents. Then they can use ... JOSHUA ABBEY Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color,... STEDMAN GRAHAM First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the bigg... TED CRUZ They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And ... ROBERTO CALASSO People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the ti... C. JOYBELL C. Stuart Levine is a guy who is accused of trying to bilk numerous state agencies — and people seeki... STEVE BROWN This is an effort to raise awareness of Falun Gong children in China. They lost their parents. They ... JASON WANG Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis th... MIKE BARNICLE As employees shoulder more responsibility for selecting and funding their own benefits, they need in... BEN COLVIN What good decision-makers do is really surprising. There is all that stuff, but they think about the... CHARLES FOSTER Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doi... JOHN BRIGGS Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ... JOHN STUART MILL They are not only acclaimed craftsmen and artists in their own right, they are personalities on top ... AMY FOSTER DEVORE I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their missio... YOUSUF KARSH Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe... ANTONIN ARTAUD Companies need to refresh their disaster plans, their continuity plans, because of the particular ch... MARK LAYTON Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a ba... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine ed... KATHARINE ELIZABETH FULLERTON GEROULD Association health plans offer small businesses with an affordable way to provide health insurance c... CAL DOOLEY It's a result of the hard work of the team from top to bottom. They are working well as a team and a... BRAD HARRIS Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They t... DAISAKU IKEDA The evacuees in Houston have been traveling for many hours to reach a safe place. They're not only e... KATHERINE GREENE Organizations in every industry vertical are becoming more and more aware that high-performing emplo... DAN BOCCABELLA
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