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… 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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… learning by our own mistakes!

May 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

No matter how good we think we are, to maintain a skill or habit we need to practice it – and regularly. Once a year is probably not going to cut it. For many years I travelled extensively, and at times would have been taking an international trip at least once a month. I would [...]

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… 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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… around the web

January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I read a great post from Chris Brogan this week, about doing a sweep through all your open browser tabs. I don’t know about you but I am really guilty of  this – I have so many browser tabs open, just waiting for me to come back and read/digest the material, or even just to [...]

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… national culture and resilience

January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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In Australia we celebrate our national day on 26 January – “Australia Day”. While technically a public holiday, my day started with a trip to my primary client’s site and several hours of crisis management before heading out to celebrate. Normally having my phone battery die is a bad thing, but this day was an [...]

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