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The Human Layer of Port Resilience
Earlier this year, I attended discussions focused on the future of ports, a topic that naturally centers on innovation, automation, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. Following that event, I wrote about what I believed was a missing component in many conversations surrounding the future of our nation’s ports: the human element. The discussions I…
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Mission Success Starts with Command
The Complexity Behind the Response Search and rescue operations are often viewed through the lens of the visible response effort, where helicopters overhead, vessels conducting coordinated search patterns, active radio traffic, command posts, and the urgency surrounding an unfolding maritime incident become the defining image of the operation itself. What is far less visible however,…
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What About the Other Shoe?
I’ve been pretty busy with work lately and haven’t had much time to sit down and write…(I know, I know, we’re all busy!). But between travel, meetings, courses, and the normal pace that comes with trying to build something meaningful, the days have moved quickly. I have a short break in my schedule this week…
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What Holds When it Matters. The difference between being trained…and being able to perform
I was talking with a colleague over the weekend about skill retention and capability. It turned into one of those conversations…where you start in one place and before you know it you’re deep into theories, what’s supposed to work, what doesn’t, and why some things seem to stick while others just…don’t. We got into everything…scenario-based…
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