# Fallout Shelters By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2022-10-27 During the Cold War occasionally one might come across a sign indicating that a building was designated as a fallout shelter. In theory, the fallout shelter would protect people from the radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb. How up-to-date were the provisions in the shelter? Where in the building was the shelter? Who would be admitted into the shelter upon arrival? All these questions and more might never be asked or answered within the community. Often it was enough to simply know that a fallout shelter was there if it were ever needed. The presence of the shelter conveys at least two things. One, society was doing all it could to be able to respond to an existential threat. Two, collectively we will endure. Both are comforting when confronting an overwhelming situation. Organizational fallout shelters are not as obvious. Certainly, there are no signs indicating where they are. In some ways, the strategic plan is an organizational fallout shelter. A strategic plan suggests that the organization is doing all it can to confront an unknown future and that the organization will endure. It is worth examining if one’s organizational strategy is authentic and progressively constructive or if it provides the misguided comfort of duck-and-cover during atomic annihilation. #### Related Items [[Strategy]] [[Comfort]] [[Business]] [[Organizational Analytics]]