Jurassic Park's Guide to Preventing Catastrophic Events

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Jurassic Park's Guide to Preventing Catastrophic Events

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Tables are overturned. Gates are broken down. Electric fences are taken down.

You watch in horror as your guests are hunted by hundreds of dinosaurs who want to satisfy their hunger. You ask yourself: "Why, oh why is this happening??"

Okay, so this might be a little different than what you had planned for your next event. You probably didn’t plan on using 65-million-year-old creatures as entertainment. But that doesn’t mean there’s no room for an event disaster. Jurassic Park and Jurassic World suffered from some of the most basic mistakes of event planning on a large scale.

Learning from their mistakes can save your event from a similar (though less dramatic) disaster, and this guide will show you how. (YES, there will be spoilers.)

Mistake number one: not distributing responsibility between managers
Events of the disaster

Dennis Nedry, the systems programmer on the original linkedin database Jurassic Park, was John Hammond's biggest hiring mistake. With all the times Hammond claims he "spare no expense," it seems the park's most important manager (the one who oversees all the security systems) isn't getting his fair share of compensation for his work.

This leaves Hammond with Nedry, who has "submitted his resignation" in the form of sabotaging all of the park's security systems and stealing all of the dinosaur embryos for Hammond's corporate rival.

This can be a problem if you leave ONE person in charge of all the important functions of your event. Unlike John Hammond's management model, having multiple event managers with the same experience is the smartest way to go, as it is difficult for one person to do everything.

For example, let's say you have one manager helping run the check-in table, but they get pulled aside to help another guest with a problem. So having another floating event manager can cover the first manager's responsibilities.

Having multiple managers also makes it easier for event staff and volunteers to help solve their problems or find answers to their questions. You just don't want Dennis Nedry running the whole show.
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