Resilience Thinking

… Anticipation and Adaptation

Dimension1

Yesterday I wrote about the tension between Planning and Adaptive Capacity as a differentiator between traditional BCM and resilience. Today I am going to explore this aspect further, and start a series that will explore some other dimensions on which we could map resilience. My thinking here is informed by a range of material on [...]

… resilience is an outcome

In the previous post I laid out some aspects and dimensions of the concept of resilience as I have come to understand it. There are a couple more ideas I want to add to that collection, and some that deserve to be explored in more detail. These will be the subjects of a series of [...]

resilience is …

… something I have been studying, researching and discussing via this blog for the past 2 years. To mark the anniversary of starting the blog, I will attempt to summarize the state of my own thinking over a series of posts this week. For those who are interested to compare changes and refinements in thinking, [...]

… waning paradigms

The previous posts in this series have explored Charles Handy’s use of the Sigmoid curve as a metaphor to explain the ups and downs of our lives, and the secret of jumping to a new wave before it is too late. Sometimes the curve we need to jump from is not just about our lives [...]

… a new wave

Source : Handy, The Empty Raincoat

The good news about the Sigmoid Curve – and its explanation of life the universe and everything – is that we are not restricted to a single curve. We can start a new curve, and if we have the courage we can make a jump to the new world. Handy refers to this as the [...]