If we want to maintain awareness about our industry, and perhaps one day even raise it to the level of a profession, then we need to focus on creating new knowledge and improving our craft all year round – not just 1 week of the year. Perhaps the most useful (in my humble opinion) contribution [...]
… age is not an indicator of resilience
July 11, 2011 by 5 Comments
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 [...]
… explore vs exploit – resilience as learning.
June 3, 2011 by 1 Comment
This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Culture and ResilienceTo 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 [...]
… the quest
May 31, 2011 by 2 Comments
This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Culture and Resilience 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 [...]
… ritual and resilience
April 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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