ABSTRACT
It is apparent that “change” is critical to effectively manage terrorism threats and risk. Just as it requires seeing threats in a new dimension, it also requires seeing risk differently and determining the best ways to deal with it. The workforce has different strengths and capabilities. Some people are suited to assess threats, others are suited for data collection of vulnerabilities, and still others are suited to come up with countermeasures and solutions or creative ways to manage risk that we may not have thought about. It is not easy to come up with solutions because the very things that keep us busy every day prevent us from having any time to “take time” to see how we should best deal with threats. That is a problem; we do not have time “to think.” So in some ways, this is not about “thinking” or nding a solution, it is about nding someone who can tell us how to do it based on expertise, experience, and a proven history of doing it for others. If we do not have time to learn and master a required skill or adapt current skills to see threats differently so that we can properly mitigate them, then we should bring in people who are already good at it.
