When is the last time you were in an environment where trust was implicit? A place where the people you were working along side, shared a unity of purpose and a single mission.
Once you experience this, it is forever engraved in your mind and felt deep in your soul.
A "Starfish Community," walking together with such a high degree of mutual trust, it will endure and remain resilient against all Operational Risks that may be encountered.
Enabled by the wisdom and thinking from Rod Beckstrom and Ori Brafman's book "Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations", the "Starfish Community" is growing rapidly across the globe.
A group of decentralized networks that are able to work without hesitancy and with moral courage. It does not matter if the model is used on the battlefield or in business, the desired outcomes are the same.
The ability for the Starfish Community to evolve, adapt and to consistently execute against its agreed upon mission manifests itself in terrorist acts and simultaneously in humanitarian and disaster response.
The ability for the human race to at one moment be so evil and at the same moment so forgiving and good, will continue to amaze us all.
The business world evolves around us with mergers and acquisitions, incidents of fraud and corruption while a silent and clandestine army of cyber warriors wage conflict on our critical infrastructure and copy or steal our intellectual assets.
The ability for the "Starfish Community" to survive in the virtual environment of the Internet is no different than the cities of Amman or Washington, DC.
This is why Wikipedia and other open source projects are able to continuously adapt, grow and survive the threats or vulnerabilities to this resilient and self-healing network.
A crisis appears in your business only when you are unable to adapt and withstand the impact of the virtual or physical forces thrust upon you.
"Whether it is the economic well being of the U.S. or the privacy laws in Europe. The shock wave of a VBIED or Insider Threat."
Your organization could reach an Operational Risk crisis state, if you have not embraced the architecture of the "Starfish Community". Learn from the best on how to withstand the test of time and all that humanity has in store for us.
And to all of those who are on the front lines of crisis everyday. God Speed. You know who you are.