For the past year I have received a daily email from Google’s Alerts Service for the keyword “resilience”. It is clear from this form of very scientific research that the concept of resilience is most commonly found in sport, not business! Perhaps it is just that sports journalists are using the word more than business writers […]
… thought leadership and inspiration
A combination of reduced inspiration and the increase in financial processing associated with the end of the financial year here, have led to me not posting anything the past few weeks. During this period I have read a number of interesting posts and articles, many of them “starred” in Google Reader and Twitter for future […]
… age is not an indicator of resilience
Recently I read an article that posed this question, “Why is a seven-hundred-year old company not well-known and celebrated as an exemplar of corporate resilience?”1 The company in question is called Stora Enso – and while they may have a case, the recent events with “News of the World” prove that age of an entity is […]
… embracing uncertainty
The annual BCI Conference starts in Sydney today, unfortunately I am not able to make it this year – having chosen to go to Toronto later in the month I need to stick to paid activity this week! I spoke at the BCI conference last year, my session was titled “In Defence of Uncertainty”. It […]
… explore vs exploit – resilience as learning.
To be resilient requires that we be open to new ideas. That has been a message in a number of the posts in this series, including the previous post discussing the Hamel & Valikangas article. Here is a new idea – resilience can mean different things in the Strategic, Tactical and Operational contexts of an […]
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