Happy New Year!
I hope you had a chance for some rest and relaxation over the holiday period with no incident callouts to respond to!
The big question is did we take the time to reflect on the past year – and what we need to do differently in 2015?
Although the newsletter is back this week I am still on holidays. So yesterday I had a go at Stand Up Paddling – or SUP to the cool kids.
This was my first time and I have to admit I fell off – more than once. It is ok to fall when you are trying something new.
The real failure is when we do not try anything new – just stick with the practices and ideas that we have used in the past.
Changing is hard, it means we need to take a risk. Problem is the world is changing around us.
Take look at this post about the work of Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School). Her learning from 2010 was that “resilience is the new skill”.
Do you think your Executives would take note of a Harvard Professor promoting resilience?
… resilience is the new skillThis is the #1 lesson that management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers from her observations of 2010. There are two of her 5 lessons that I think are very relevant to our discussion of resilience. In her blog post “5 Lessons from 2010 worth repeating …”, Kanter’s first lesson is; “Surprises are the new normal. Resilience is the new skill.” … |
First we need a commitment to change, then we need to reflect and plan what it is we want to change. I gave up on New Years resolutions a few years back. Instead I use a technique I borrowed that uses 3 guiding words.
These posts describe how I am using the technique this year, and my focal words.
What are your big objectives or focus areas for the year reader?
… 3 words 2015When it comes to New Years Resolutions I have not been very resilient, what about you? It is easy to get caught up in the excitement of the big night, fireworks (Sydney is certainly one of the first and as the picture shows, one of the best normally), retrospectives of the year past and motivation to make changes in our … |
… eating an ElephantI am a writer. Unfortunately I had forgotten that, and needed to remind myself. Have you had the same experience, where you neglect something that you care about due to pressures from other areas of your life? That is why I chose 274 as the first of my focus words for 2015. It is a constant reminder that I want to … |
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Building resilience means we need to broadening our skills, not just get deeper knowledge and expertise in the same old skills. It means we need to break some of our old habits and from some new ones. Many of our old habits are the result of a fixed mindset, until we change that mindset we cannot see the value in different skills and practices. For many years BC simply ignored the growing threat of Cyber attack – today everybody is talking about the Sony case. Why does BC come to the party late for many of these new practices? Legacy mindset. A danger of legacy mindset is that it creates an environment of “Wilful Blindness” – a situation where we refuse to see the risk that are presented to us. What some refer to as Black Swans – but they are able to be seen and addressed if we look up and embrace different mental models. Some reading for you here. Links to a post that talk about mindset as an intro to my BCM World presentation on Cyber Threat/Opportunity. (BTW, if you would like a copy of the slides from that session just hit reply and ask – happy to share). Also a link to a review of my BCAW 2013 Webinar (the webinar should still be available) on the topic of Wilful Blindness and how it is impacted by culture in organisation. Finally a review of a post from Phil Wood that presents another perspective on the theme – “Failure to change kills resilience”
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