A few things to say "Amen" to include:
- Incentivizing Mitigation — there aren't many sticks to make this work anyway
- Embracing Technology — it is the 21st century
- Disaster Recovery — it is more than the FEMA programs, I call it the bridge not yet crossed by most emergency management programs
- Regional — the world does not end at your jurisdictional boundaries
- Scholar Practitioners — keep learning until you are dead
- Emergency Management is a social science — attend the Natural Hazards Workshop this July in Boulder, Colo.
- Think strategy, not tactics — my May 2019 IAEM Bulletin Disaster Zone Column will be about relationships
- Private citizens won't prepare — if emergency managers are not prepared, why do you expect citizens to become prepared?
