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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Your search skills are weak.
Keep looking.
TR
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Well damn - just poke a stick in my eye. You can call my skills lots of things, but don't call them weak fella - that is a challenge.
Originally, after just putting PACE out there and getting litteraly thousands of things popping up, mostly about, "Keeping up the PACE" "Setting the PACE" etc.
I then added the word Planning. That got me 26 postings - but after reading half of those, I found that when the word PACE seemed to apply to the Acronym I was searching for, it didn't define it, just used it. So feeling frustrated and impatient, I gave up and posted the previous, and quickly got the stick in the eye.
So this time, I added the word COMMO to the string - got 5 postings, two of the five were in the ball park, and finally, the last one provided the answer. Of course, the key here was to begin slowly learning the context of the thing without understanding the thing, in order to narrow the search - all verry entertaining. (see these postings below)
I'm going to go back and reread this history thread" and see if might make more sense - I've got nothing else better to do this chilly Sunday afternoon anyway.
Mitch
First Posting:
PACE is having three contingency plans. Originally used for our commo planning.
Seatback evacuation card has all of the layout data. Take one, if you fly a lot. Most of the online reservation sites let you pick your seat assignments, that has a diagram as well.
Count rows to exits, and I try to sit on the aisle, exit row if available. Keep an eye on people gathering, and moving toward the front of the plane.
Surefire 6P is great emergency evac gear, just the right size to fill my fist, and blinding to the eyes if it is not broad daylight. I have the heavy belt as well, and a few other items. Molon Labe!
TR
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Second Posting:
Peregrino,
First, thanks for correctly defining the problem -- that's always more than half the battle. And thanks for the references, I'll start tracking those down.
PACE, is that a military term? What I see everywhere I look is the 'P' part mostly handled ("we'll call you") but nothing done after that. I don't know enough about the local gov's plans to know if that is a bad thing, as that was my personal approach as well: develop a 'primary' plan for each category and then make the loop through them again to make alternate plans. It may be they are simply in the 'primary' planning mode and when those needs are met we'll see alternates put into place.
That said, the more I look into this stuff them more I think we are well and truly buggered if something serious hits. Talk about culture shock; someone who's been running a business for twenty years butting up against departmental, village, township, and county bureaucracies. I'll never complain about the feds again.
An epidemiologist once said to me that pandemics weren't a bad thing at the species level -- they burn off all the dead brush that's been developing on the hillsides. I'm starting to see her point.
Third Posting:
Originally Posted by FrontSight
I think it's harder to consciously realize when a situation is slowly going wrong or getting slowly worse. One way is to take a mental checkpoint and assess, "If [this situation] were to get worse, what would it be like?"
FrontSight
And here I thought you had your MBA all sewed up. We military types use a variety of tools (operations estimate, intell estimate, troop leading procedures, METTTS, area studies, area assessements and NDD's favorite OODA) to think thru stuff like this. I would have thought that you could use a similar tool from your marketing course or strategic planning course to do the same thing. Just change some of the parameters to identify where you currently are and then plug in the variables that impact on where you want to go.
Jack Moroney-cautioning that any plan is locked in jello and has to change as the variables that impact it change. Also recommending the acronymn PACE (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) from my non-technical commo days.
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