The most important task of an organization's leader is to anticipate crisis. - Peter Drucker
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel Boorstin
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. - Winston Churchill
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is less truth to be discovered than error to be exposed. - H. L. Mencken
You [the security person] are one of those asymmetrical people who get no credit for the victories -- for nothing happening. It's the real world. Get over it. - Tom Peters
NICK CATRANTZOS is the lead author of the All Secure website and is the emeritus security director for a large public organization. He has also managed security aspects of corporate takeovers, response to international hostage situations, and finding and keeping secrets. He has been board certified in security management, licensed as a private investigator, and certified as an incident commander. He worked as a case officer for a discreet branch of public service. He protected stealth technology at Lockheed and, later, as a consulting security director for both Kroll and Control Risks, he assisted executives with workplace violence cases and with protecting VIPs and critical assets globally in volatile areas. Nick's partner, TOM GOFF, was a captain in the Military Police Corps, U.S. Army Reserve and has a law degree from the University of California at Davis. He is a former reporter for Fortune Magazine, was senior editor at New York Magazine and Esquire, and has provided crisis and communications counsel to senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, including Lockheed, ARCO, Microsoft, Nissan, and Sony Pictures.