When disaster strikes, local and international humanitarians are often the first on the scene.
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When disaster strikes, contractors flood the area to cash in on the rebuilding effort.
More importantly, it is hard to predict if these long-term commitments will work accordingly when disaster strikes.
Most states have done little to train their officials or educate their people about what to do when disaster strikes.
But we've also been inspired these past few days -- because when disaster strikes, we see America at its best.
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When disaster strikes a company becomes not just an anonymous provider of goods and services, but a member of the community.
Success, it's now understood, goes to those that can genuinely reduce costs, recruit and retain the best employees, and ensure business continuity when disaster strikes.
When disaster strikes power service is disrupted, sometimes for weeks.
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People don't degenerate into wild animals when disaster strikes.
The same automation and control that gives organizations the ability to scale up or down using multiple servers when demand increases also allows them to migrate entire server deployments to a new infrastructure when disaster strikes.
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And sensible standards for insurability drawn up with the latest climate science and projections in mind can help vulnerable communities make good decisions about land use, infrastructure and building codes, so that they are more resilient when disaster strikes.
But when our Union frayed, when the Depression came, when our harbor was bombed, when our country was attacked on that September day, when disaster strikes like that tornado that just ripped through this region, we do not falter.
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The pork soup scandal, as it has been dubbed, hits the trifecta of Chinese mistrust of government: lack of a plan to protect the public interest instead of companies and officials, political corruption that fails to hold polluters accountable, and withholding timely information when disaster strikes.
So, when a disaster strikes, the best business pulse to feel is that of the biggest of these operators.
We can't control nature, but we can and must be prepared for disaster when it strikes.
It cannot claim innocence when a national disaster strikes with declarations of betrayal by the political leadership.
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