In June I decided to start tallying how many meetings I do. In this, I should preface that I only attend the meetings I have to. At the end of each month now I note the running tally of meetings I participated in (vs meetings I accepted – some meetings, after all, don’t go ahead, or get moved).
In June, I did 135 of 167 meetings accepted. July was quiet, with just 78 of 93 meetings. August: 93 of 107. September was 96 of 110. October was a little busy again, at 116 of 136 meetings.
So in five months that’s I’ve been in 518 meetings of 613 accepted.
And since the most meetings I tend to do a Monday is 3, you can bet that means somedays I have double-digit meetings. (My current maximum is 14 in a day. I’m hoping not to beat it any time soon.)
Which means learning how to dance in the cracks in time between meetings to get my action items done, since a lot of those action items come from meetings in the first place.
I say this all because I know what it’s like to be busy. Hell, I don’t even describe myself as being busy any more when people ask – the answer is hectic, because in the modern IT world, hectic seems more apropos to describe a $dayjob than just plain-old busy.
And somehow, after all those meetings ended each day, I got to thinking: what does a busy IT manager or worker need to know – really know about data protection in order to shepherd their business through a data recovery scenario?
Which is why I wrote The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery. Like any book about recovery, this is about learning what you need to do in order to ensure you can recover, but the emphasis is pretty much 100% on what you have to do to get to that point. And it is very much to the point; I’m not kidding when I say it’s aimed at people who are busy – this is the chapter list:
- Introduction
- Understanding Data Resilience
- Enabling Recoverability
- Building Recovery into Cyber Resilience
- Wrapping Up
It really is brief and to the point for anyone who can’t decide whether their job is busy or hectic but is somehow still either responsible or accountable for data recoverability within their organisation.
It’s due out December 6, which is now less than a month away! Here’s a discount code you can use until December 31, 2023:
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