A few weeks back I received an email from the Economist Intelligence Unit announcing a new report they had published and suggesting I may like to post a review. The report is entitled “Ascending the maturity curve. Effective management of enterprise risk and compliance”. The report is the result of sponsored research, in this case […]
… 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 […]
… the quest
Today I am reviewing one of the earliest, and certainly one of the more influential, articles describing the concept of resilience as it applies to organisations. Despite being almost 8 years old, this paper still offers some interesting insights into the concept of resilience for the contemporary reader. “The Quest for Resilience” by Gary Hamel […]
… ritual and resilience
Here in Australia we have just finished a 5 day weekend. This year the Easter Weekend (normally 4 days) occured at the same time as the ANZAC Day public holiday. For the benefit of international readers ANZAC Day is a national day of rememberance for those who fought and died in war. It commemorates the […]
… resilience as a craft
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. ~ Emile Zola I bought my wife a piece of handcrafted jewellery for Christmas. The craftsman, in this case a silver smith, had created his own design, rather than copy from somebody else’s idea. […]