I hope you enjoyed the first half of this list. 

Here is the sequel of common barriers to having a practical, actionable crisis plan. 

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Quick – what’s worse:  having no crisis plan, or having an unwieldy crisis plan?

Consider that the latter is worse for an organization that lets its fate ride solely on the contents of that plan, without cultivating an experienced team to execute its clunky contents.  In other words:  it’s a bad plan to trust only a plan; it’s disastrous if the written plan isn’t actionable. 

Crisis managers should review of their written plans against this checklist of worst practices to see if a re-write is due:

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