ABSTRACT
Remember my fi rst full-time job doing business continuity within a company when I asked my boss whether he was serious or not about having a plan? He replied that of course he was serious-after all, he hired me. I said that clearly he wanted a plan, but what type of plan did he want? I needed to understand whether he wanted a plan that looked good to the auditors or one that would actually work. I told him that I had worked for the company long enough that he could sit me in a room for three months or so and I could write a plan that looked really good on paper, one that he could show to the auditors and they would smile and agree that we had a plan, and then I would go off and do something else because it really wasn’t career-enhancing to do something that management did not consider important. If that was all he wanted, that is what I would do.
