… 2013, here ready or not!

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Time is like disasters and disruptions – the New Year rolls around whether you are ready or not. Welcome to 2013 readers – if there are any left! While the world did not end for everybody last year (which is an indictment on risk management going back to the an client Incan’s), it did for [...]

… measuring resilience

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 [...]

… learning by our own mistakes!

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 [...]

… ritual and resilience

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 [...]

… around the web

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 [...]