I am always sceptical when I find articles that claim to identify or eliminate the so-called “Black Swan” events. Primarily as they appear to be derived from not having read, nor understood, Taleb’s definition of a Black Swan event. First point of definition, the event is outside the realm of regular experience and there is [...]
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… postcards from resilience
October 3, 2011 By 2 Comments
One of the common ‘complaints’ in the resilience space is that we spend too much time talking about the concept and not enough time doing it! Here is a suggestion on how you can get started on the implementation phase. Regular readers may recall earlier mention of the work of Liisa Valikangas, in particular her [...]
… causality and ice-cream
September 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
I have been discussing the relative impact of long-term Executive tenure on resilience with Charley Newnham on her blog. My issue was that I did not see that one caused the other. You can read the discussion here, but the conversation brought to mind a story one of my Sociology lecturers often used to illustrate [...]
… just Gold
August 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
Today I want to introduce you to a (relatively) new blogger in the resilience space. There seem to be too few seeking to expand understanding and learning in this space, so always good to have new thinking being published. Charley Newnham is writing her dissertation for a MSc in Resilience at Cranfield University (UK). Her [...]
… measuring resilience
June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the subjects I have to keep dragging myself back to is this idea that to make progress on resilience we must be able to measure it. This idea of measuring was one of the key drivers behind proposing the Resilience Observatory. For those who accept that resilience is not a process, then we [...]
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