Preparation
A plan should buy you options, not just make you feel organized.
Professional work
A plan is useful right up until the situation changes.
I’ve spent more than a decade in executive protection. The work has taken me through film productions, public appearances, press tours and international travel.
It taught me to respect preparation. It also taught me not to fall in love with the plan.
Executive protection
Most of the job is less dramatic than people imagine. That is usually a good sign.
You prepare, observe, communicate, move and adjust. The goal is not to look impressive. The goal is to help the day keep working when circumstances change.
One lesson showed up early and never really left. Confidence is useful. Readiness is better. One is how you feel. The other is what is actually in place.
I serve as Vice President of On Point Resources, Inc., a security and investigations company based in White Plains, New York.
Our work includes executive protection, production security, threat assessment, investigations and security consulting.
On Point ResourcesFilm & production
Selected individual credits
01Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
02Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
03Top Gun: Maverick
04Mission: Impossible - Fallout
05American Made
06The Mummy
07Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Some film databases list my credits under Aronicimo Richotti. IMDb has the full record.
International experience
Travel is good at exposing assumptions you did not know you had.
Professional work has taken me through the United States and internationally, including London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City.
The interesting part is not the passport stamp. It is what happens when the rules you learned in one environment stop working cleanly in the next. You pay closer attention. You ask better questions. You adjust.
What the work taught me
Lessons that stayed useful.
Observation
See what is there before deciding what it means.
Pressure
When attention gets narrow, simple systems become very valuable.
Consequence
When being wrong has a real cost, you get less attached to being right.
Human behavior
Pressure does not always change people. Sometimes it just makes them easier to see.
Readiness
Feeling ready is not the same as having the conditions in place.
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