“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them” Laurence J. Peter Dr Peter may well have been talking about the problem of understanding, building and maintaing resilience. Resilience is a wicked problem. A wicked problem is one that is almost impossible to [...]
… profession or not?
June 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Things have been fairly hectic since my return from Toronto. A new client engagement to get started, not to mention a number of late nights watching the FIFA World Cup, have distracted me from posting here. While catching up on my reading I came across this article in Risk Magazine. The quoted comments are in [...]
… competence and disclosure (Part 2)
March 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In the first part of this series I talked about the path from blissful ignorance to ‘Unconscious Competence’ – and how that could be applied to thinking about BCM and Resilience. The focus of this post is about using a different model to explore how we can learn more about ourselves and our professional programs. [...]
… competence and disclosure (Part 1)
March 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This post was inspired by a comment that Chris Miller made on my post about non-routine risk. I had used the term ‘unconscious competence’ to describe a mode of risk management that we all practice – dealing with risks such as crossing the road and the like. Things that we can do competently without having to [...]
… 3 words to focus resilience in 2010
January 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In a post on New Years Eve I highlighted the idea of using key words to focus our attention and pull us towards our goals rather than the more traditional form of New Year’s resolutions. While I guess many people may prefer to keep their personal key words to themselves, I thought I would share [...]
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