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☆ CrowdStrike's crisis management strategy holds lessons for all companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He believed Kurtz deserves credit for quickly engaging the media on Friday, apologizing, and promising solutions — even if social media users say the apology didn't come fast enough. The steps to take in a crisisGood crisis management can be boiled down to a few simple yet crucial steps, the two experts told BI. But as disruption from the CrowdStrike outage slowly lessens, many are still concerned by the in-built potential of technology-reliant systems crashing, bringing down all operations with them. Griffin said his company, which provides crisis management software, is now reviewing its plans and policies to prevent the kind of tech failure CrowdStrike experienced. "The bottom line is that crisis management is not a check the box; it is an evolution and requires continuous training, exercising, and learning to improve, especially as the nature of threats and types of incidents evolve."

Persons: —, CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, Kurtz, Getty, Shawn Henry —, Sean Griffin, Griffin, Peer, it's Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business, Windows, Madrid, Barajas, Europa Press, Disaster Tech

☆ Grieving and on edge, US Jews, Muslims seek solace as Hamas-Israel war rages
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Friday services, highlighted by the main weekly prayers for Muslims and the start of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown, were the first since the massacre. Larry Mead, vice president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, said, "We are seeing the Jewish community is very apprehensive. "We're not going to cancel Shabbat," said Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis. "And meanwhile, hundreds of innocent Palestinians are also losing their lives, trapped in Gaza as the war is just beginning." Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago CAIR chapter, said on Facebook he had also been talking with Jewish counterparts in the region, and took hope in the connections made.

Persons: Vered Levi, Josef Trommer, Evelyn Hockstein, Richard Priem, Motti Seligson, Larry Mead, We're, Joseph Potasnik, B'nai Avraham, Chabad, Rabbi Aaron Raskin, Beth Elohim, Diane Weber, Beth, Weber, Basim Elkarra, Elkarra, It’s, Ahmed Rehab, Sharon Bernstein, Donna Bryson, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: Freedom, REUTERS, Rights, Jewish Federation of, New York, Tarbiya Institute, Islamic Relations, Chicago CAIR, Facebook, Thomson Locations: Israel, U.S, Washington , U.S, Rights SACRAMENTO, Calif, United States, Gaza, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, California, Sacramento, Chicago

☆ ‘Vegan Landlord’ Seeks Tenant for Sunny Apartment. There’s a Catch.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Andy Newman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Actually, the broker, Andrea Kelly, explained to one prospect, meat eaters were not banned; cooking meat and fish was. “It’s not vegetarian-only, but the owner lives in the building and doesn’t want the smell of cooking meat drifting upstairs,” she said. The owner, Michal Arieh Lerer, refused to speak to a reporter, and Ms. Kelly and her employers at Douglas Elliman declined to comment. But Ms. Lerer’s ex-husband, who co-owns the building and is also vegan, said that they both had refused to rent to carnivores who cook since buying the house in 2007. “It’s not about discrimination,” said the ex-husband, Motti Lerer.

Persons: Andrea Kelly, “, ”, Michal Arieh Lerer, Kelly, Douglas Elliman, Lerer’s, “ It’s, Motti Organizations: Douglas

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