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William Sager, Senior Associate “Our Strategic Planning Process Leader” We know that predicting the future is at best difficult, particularly in today’s chaotic times. Regardless of that reality, organizations still only have two choices: either plan for the future or do not plan. Failure to plan is planning to fail. Strategic planning is one method…
By William Sager, October 2008 Who can volunteer to work as a firefighter in your community? The first answer that comes to mind is, “anyone can.” Not so fast. The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits employees of government agencies from volunteering their time to perform the same job for which they receive pay. For many…
By William Sager, February 2008 Many communities, particularly in the disaster prone west, are feeling the threat of disaster and doing something about it. They realize they cannot wait for calamity and hope that their Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be up and running. They learned the lessons of Katrina and September 11, and they…
By William Sager, April 2007 If a major earthquake about the magnitude of the one in 1906 should strike the San Francisco Bay Area, it would affect much more than the City of San Francisco. Almost 2.5 million people live in the East Bay Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa. These citizens depend on their…
By William Sager, Winter 2006 What do forests and subways have in common? At first glance it seems, not much. Nevertheless, if a major emergency, such as a fire in a forest or terrorist attack in a subway occurs, the emergency management organizational structure is the same. It is the Incident Command System, or ICS…
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