Jeff Donaldson, PhD

The Small Business Preparedness Coach - Veteran, Author, Professor

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@AndrewBrethauer @David_Moscrop Bam - just hit the link I provided, hand over your money, my system is ready!!!

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

Imagine concentrating all your work on the Microsoft 365 ecosystem for efficiency, without redundancy.

Who would do that in 2026?

Choose business continuity - this did not have to affect your operations.

#Outlook #RiskManagement

[Jack V Lloyd @jackvlloyd]

Your wallet isn't thin because of billionaires and Capitalists.

It's because the government keeps eroding your buying power with inflationary debt spending, taxes, and prosperity-destroying regulations.

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

“China only cares about Canada right now because it sees opportunities to drive a wedge between U.S. allies” - Michael Kovrig.
https://t.co/0GtyJrWiE7

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

The Outlook loss could have been a non-issue - if you had a business continuity strategy.

Trying to find a pathway to communicate with clients and industry after an event like the Outlook outage demonstrates the futility of risk management initiation "right of boom".

Strategies need not be complex, demand significant resources, or be disruptive; but they must be designed and rehearsed, "left of bang".

This experience should serve as an opportunity to reflect, to examine how well your organization was able to continue normal operations throughout the loss of Outlook.

If you were at all "uncomfortably" affected, consider business continuity.

It is non-evasive, built with your existing team, for a fraction of the cost of lost revenue due to a disruption.

So, over this weekend, reflect on whether you'd like to try this event again - maybe next time it is your AI agent that disappears for a few days, or the entire 365 / Workspace application. Are you ready to continue to deliver for your customers without Microsoft, Google, ChatGPT, Claude etc.?

The choice is yours, choose wisely.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

From a guy who’s made many videos about dependancy on one ecosystem like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, today is amusing #RiskManagement #Outlook

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

Business Continuity - Simplified
I encounter many founder-led enterprises that are concerned about disruption but find a full suite business continuity management system (BCMS) too complicated, invasive and resource-heavy; not to mention expensive.

In some cases they are working off misinformation, but in most, they are indeed correct. The full-spectrum ISO / GPG practice is far too much for a small firm with a few employees and six-figure revenue.

Simplification is not about elimination, but concentration on the few key dependencies and locking in robust strategies to continue operating, despite the best efforts from the market and geopolitics.

We at Preparedness Labs Incorporated serve the small, founder-led B2B professional services agencies - legal, accounting, financial services. We are not interested in adjusting your business model, but designing a strategy to protect your firm against exogenous shocks and helping you thrive in environments that others find overwhelming.

Our bespoke BC advisory offer for your firm is $3000 all-in; with a year of engagement, follow-up and support. Compare that to your latest BCMS / Risk Management consulting quote.

You need a Toyota, not a Mercedes.

Simple question:
Is your firm ready for the next pandemic-level shock event, to repeat March of 2020? If not, then we might need to chat.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@Martinxr0 @jeffbullas Absolutely, everything is found at https://t.co/Br7eRKzCO2.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@jeffbullas How to protect what you have, get hurt less and bounce back sooner. Focus on what you can control, not the crazy world around us.

[John Thomson @JohnThomsonSK]

When we are old men and women, like our WW2 or Korean vets are now, there will be no battlefield tours of the places we fought in Afghanistan.

There will be no Juno Beach Centre equivalent in Kandahar, Panjwai, or Zhari, for Canadians to visit.

There will be no marble monument where the White School stood to hold a poignant memorial ceremony.

Without that physical link, our war will be harder for future Canadians to relate too, and remember.

That’s why it’s so vital that the stories of our time in Afghanistan are shared and preserved now.

If you served in Afghanistan, your contribution was important and unique. Write it down, blog it, do what you can to share your experiences if you’re capable and comfortable doing so. The more we do now the better.

A great way to do this is to support @TFProjectAthena.

Send them your pictures and the stories that go along with them and help keep our history alive and in the memory of Canadians, now and in the future.

Lest we forget.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@UlmerLana26050 @SunGarrioch It’s designed to try. That’s all, and peace is worth the effort.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@UlmerLana26050 @SunGarrioch Nothing in life has guarantees, that should not be a barrier to trying to limit human slaughter. I've been to war, not recommended.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@ThePhDPlace Probably lost with the second reviewer who insists you cite his work in exchange for his thumbs up.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@WaxPersicaria The purpose of international sports survived far worse wars and horrors than Ukraine, incomparable slaughter, yet the teams gathered and played.

[Jeff Donaldson, PhD @MasteringRisk]

@canmericanized Until the coming election is over; this sounds very much like the prelude to an election call.

[Alexandra Lavoie @ThevoiceAlexa]

🚨BREAKING: Carney claims the U.S. is a significantly greater national security threat to Canada than the Chinese Communist Party.

“In terms of the security risks for our partnership, they’re much much much less than the security risks, for example, of the United States.”