How robust are your organization’s crisis response contingency plans?

Our reader poll today asks: How robust are your organization’s crisis response contingency plans?

• Extremely: we’re ready for anything and can get operations back online quickly 13.16%
• Very: we’re prepared for most crises and have adequate contingency plans 47.37%
• Somewhat: we’re ready for common crises but would struggle with others 28.95%
• Not very: if we face a crisis, we’ll be challenged to get through it 7.89%
• Not at all: if a crisis hits, we’re doomed 2.63%

Be prepared. Only 60% of you responded that you’re well-prepared for a crisis or emergency. For the 40% who aren’t, it’s easy to put off that preparation with the notion that a crisis will be a rare occurrence. Unfortunately crises happen every day but we perceive them to be infrequent. Wars, pandemics, natural disasters, civil unrest, bankruptcies, financial crises… the list goes on and on. It’s well worth the investment of creating contingency plans and having the infrastructure in place to be able to continue business operations quickly in the face of a crisis. Having that plan in place can be the difference between tremendous success and abject failure.

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 240,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.