The Pink Slice – what you don’t know you don’t know. In many things, including Emergency Management, there are things you know (like a problem you know and its solution) and things you don’t know (like a problem you know but don’t know its solution). There are also things you don’t know what the problem is at all.
Check out the article below – “Shrink the Pink Slice” for an introduction to this idea – and feel free to share in the comments any emergency management examples you may have which can be connected to shrinking the Pink Slice!
Here’s what we are reading (or hope to!) in 2023: Benghazi: Know Thy Enemy by Sarah Adams & Dave Benton Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes by Richard A. Clarke & R.P. Eddy The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore by Michele Wucke The Handbook of Crisis Communication …
Some of the After Action Reports (AARs) on major incidents or GO/NGO councils/committees, we have found on the web. Do you know of any others available as OSINT (Open Source Intelligence – items available – TLP: Green- to the public, not classified or sensitive)? Please add in the comments. If any of these links are …
We believe the worst-case scenario disaster which will fall on Emergency Management is the Electro-Magnetic Pulse wave (EMP) from a low-atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device over the United States. This will have catastrophic impacts to the continuity of operations / continuity of government (COOP/COG) for emergency management (EM). It is the maximum of maximums …
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The following photo shows what can happen when well-meaning people send unsolicited items to a disaster site. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, large piles of used clothing, shoes, food, and household goods sent to Port-au-Prince went unclaimed and began spoiling, attracting rats and other vermin. Not …
Here is what we are reading in 2020: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – by Atul Gawande Disaster!: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century – by Alan Siegel The Institute: A Novel – by Stephen King Called to Rise: A Life in Faithful Service to the Community That Made Me – …
What’s the Pink Slice? The Pink Slice is a term used to describe what you don’t know you don’t know. In many aspects of Emergency Management Intelligence (EMINT) and Incident Command, there are things you know – for example what the strategic, operational and tactical objectives should be during a routine response to an …
