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 [...]
… Transocean’s best year for safety
May 3, 2011 by
Last month, the Transocean company announced “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history” and paid millions of dollars in Executive bonuses. These are the folks who built and staffed the Deepwater Horizon – and lost 9 of their own people the day it exploded. This announcement came only a few weeks ahead of [...]
… sad opportunities to learn
April 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A couple of meaningful anniversaries deserve to be remembered, and learned from, this week. 19 April, 1995 – the bombing of the Oklahoma (USA) Federal Building 20 April, 2010 – the explosion and subsequent oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon I expect most of the coverage will focus on the first anniversary of the start [...]
… empty raincoats
December 12, 2010 by 1 Comment
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Paradox of resilience thinkingThe sculpture is called Without Words, by Judith Shea. It was the inspiration for the title of Charles Handy‘s book “The Empty Raincoat”. I am a big fan of Handy’s thinking. In The Empty Raincoat he tells the story of ‘The Road [...]
… wrap revisited
December 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Over the past couple of weeks the RSS wrap up has gone missing – so thought it was time to make a return. Leading off is Riskczar – A week or so back Trevor was recognised by OnlineFinanceDegrees.com for his work, awarded as a Top Finance Blog. You can read more in his post “Riskczar’s [...]
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