This week’s review of Establishing and Maintaining Stability and Continuity was informative as well as sparked some reactions to the literature. Reviewing the five competencies proved to be very informative and provided some valuable points of consideration however, there were some areas I didn’t fully agree with. I expected this to be the case given my many years of working in a managerial role and developing attitudes towards scholarly recommendations. Throughout my review I made many notes and will review only a few here otherwise my paper would extend far beyond the minimum requirement. The first competency, organizing information flows, echoed much of the information acquired from real time operations. The authors state that new technologies have greatly increased the amount of information we receive and the speed at which requested information arrives. In the past we could write a letter, drop it in the mailbox, and then turn our attention to other things while we waited for a reply (p.110). I can remember early in the military we would use routing slip attached to a memorandum and it would go through the distribution system. Though it was recognized at the time, this process allowed the sender time to recover from preparing document outling a program or project. Now, that same document can be sent via e-mail and received by received within seconds. The drawback to this is that sender can receive a response back within minutes to move forward with that project never having time to initiate other responsibilities. Due to budget cuts, administrative assistant position no longer exists in many of our offices. Those responsibilities now fall to the office staff or in our case, to the NCOIC to review, forward and/or take action on. “Good managers review all incoming data flows, but great managers are able to organize data efficiently…” (p.