Managing Uncertainty

Bryghtpath LLC

Welcome to Managing Uncertainty, a podcast series discussing crisis management, business continuity, & crisis communications. You’ll learn strategies, tactics, and resources about preparing for, responding to, and recovering from all sorts of disruptions and critical moments. Will you be ready to lead through your company’s critical moment?

  1. 6월 15일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #329: The Champion Problem

    On this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath examines why some resilience programs survive a change in leadership and others quietly fall apart. The deciding factor is rarely the quality of the plans. It comes down to business alignment and whether the program’s champion understands that alignment is the point. Bryan makes a contrarian case: a strong champion can actually be the more fragile of the two. A program propped up by one leader’s relationships looks like success, right up until that leader is promoted, retires, or gets reorganized away. When they go, the entire case for …

    10분

  2. 6월 13일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #328: Subtract

    Most resilience programs don’t fail because the plans are wrong. They fail because capable leaders make the work more complicated than it needs to be, and never tie it back to the business. In this episode, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath explains the complexity tax and why “adding rigor” usually makes things worse. Bryan walks through the five ways good leaders overcomplicate resilience. A structure no one can explain, terminology that hides meaning, plans untethered from the business, borrowed confidence about plans you don’t understand, and solving confusion by adding more process. Each one comes from caring and knowing a lot, not …

    14분

  3. 6월 10일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #328: Subtract

    Most resilience programs don’t fail because the plans are wrong. They fail because capable leaders make the work more complicated than it needs to be, and never tie it back to the business. In this episode, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath explains the complexity tax and why “adding rigor” usually makes things worse. Bryan walks through the five ways good leaders overcomplicate resilience. A structure no one can explain, terminology that hides meaning, plans untethered from the business, borrowed confidence about plans you don’t understand, and solving confusion by adding more process. Each one comes from caring and knowing a lot, not …

    14분

  4. 5월 12일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #327: The IT Problem Myth

    In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser breaks down the dangerous fallacy of the “IT-only” crisis. When your cloud provider goes down at 9:14 AM on a Tuesday, the resulting chaos—from broken point-of-sale systems to dark warehouses—isn’t a technical glitch; it’s a total business failure. If your CEO’s only move is calling the CIO to ask “When is it fixed?”, your organization is already in a state of collapse. Bryan outlines the three critical shifts executive teams must make in the next 90 days to move beyond silence and technical metrics. He …

    11분

  5. 5월 4일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #326: Compliance is not Resilience

    In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser explains why a clean compliance audit and a resilient organization are not the same thing. Compliance proves what you did in the past. Resilience is what you execute under pressure in the future. Bryan walks through why a 300-page binder is no substitute for rehearsed leadership, with lessons from last year’s AWS outage. He explains why resilience programs go obsolete when they sit adjacent to executive strategy instead of moving with the business. And he reframes what boards should actually measure, shifting from plan revisions …

    6분

  6. 4월 28일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #325: The Polycrisis Playbook: Why Leaders Must Be Ready for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

    Your business continuity program was built for one crisis at a time. That world is gone. In Episode 325 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath unpacks the polycrisis and why concurrent, compounding crises break the programs most organizations rely on. Bryan walks through the ten threats driving the polycrisis era and the four places where legacy programs fail under concurrent stress. He introduces the four capabilities every resilience leader needs to build next: Sense, Decide, Respond, and Recover and Learn. He closes with a four-phase roadmap to move from a single-scenario program to a real operating model. …

    18분

  7. 4월 20일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #324 - Why Performative Leadership Destroys Crisis Response

    Bryan Strawser challenges a common but damaging leadership instinct: the urge for executives to take over and micromanage during a crisis. He explains that this kind of performative leadership creates bottlenecks, slows decision-making, and undermines the expertise of the crisis team when speed and clarity matter most. Strawser emphasizes that effective crisis leadership requires nuance—balancing time in the weeds with a strategic, enterprise-wide perspective. Leaders must resist ego-driven behavior, trust their trained teams, and focus on aligning the organization, communicating effectively, and protecting long-term business outcomes. The episode underscores a critical truth: if leaders cannot trust their teams to manage …

    5분

  8. 4월 13일

    Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #323: The Fog of War

    In Episode #323: The Fog of War, Bryan Strawser explores the reality leaders face in the first moments of a crisis—when information is incomplete, conflicting, or entirely absent. Drawing on his experience during the Boston Marathon manhunt, he emphasizes that waiting for perfect information is a losing strategy; leaders must act decisively based on what they know while clearly acknowledging what they do not. The episode introduces a practical decision-making framework grounded in “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” and the critical risk of “unknown unknowns.” Strawser reinforces that silence is not neutral—it is a decision that creates space for others to …

    7분
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Welcome to Managing Uncertainty, a podcast series discussing crisis management, business continuity, & crisis communications. You’ll learn strategies, tactics, and resources about preparing for, responding to, and recovering from all sorts of disruptions and critical moments. Will you be ready to lead through your company’s critical moment?

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