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Professional Referral

DMCIS provides professional referrals that can help you avoid recurring problems with field staff. Disasters do terrible things to people and societies. Moreover, disaster relief operations have unintended consequences--including the secondary disaster of relief itself. Field experience and occasional after-action reports reveal notable examples of staff dysfunction within the relief community. Selected examples follow:

  • senior bureaucratic staff with administrative titles, preference for short (< 1 week) field visits, confidence they have seen it all before, limited concern for risks they create, and inability to hear the word "No"
  • senior consultant staff with academic titles, preference for short (< 1 month) field visits, facile with data systems, feeble with human systems, inventive in creating parallel systems, and intolerant of criticism
  • junior staff with primitive notions of their own self-importance and a latent personality disorder of passive-aggressive behavior which is unmasked by stress
  • long-term staff who have done it all before, foresaken any hope of returning to a responsible job at home, and resigned themselves to an ex-pat life intoxicated by one substance or another and unfettered by impulse control
  • new staff at a new site undertaking a night journey required by an organization that provides no maps, no communications equipment, and no back-up travel plan
  • any staff unaware of their security vulnerability
The damage caused under these circumstances can be daunting. DMCIS is committed to preventing this damage. Please contact us for details.







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