… resilience is the new skill

This is the #1 lesson that management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers from her observations of 2010. There are two of her 5 lessons that I think are very relevant to our discussion of resilience. In her blog post “5 Lessons from 2010 worth repeating …“, Kanter’s first lesson is; “Surprises are the new normal. [...]

… a focus on community

In the previous post of this series I talked about the 3 words that I have chosen to provide my focus for 2011. This post expands on the ideas that ‘community’ is intended ot focus on. I want to make the blog more resilient There is only so long you can go writing notes to [...]

… 2010 in hindsight

Time is the most egalitarian asset, we all get exactly the same amount. The difference is what each person does with their allocation. Without some kind of objectives or goals we have nothing to guide us, nor a means to determine if we reached our desired destination. This applies to our BCM and Risk Management [...]

… empty raincoats

The 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 to Davy’s Bar’. It is a story about an Irishman explaining the directions [...]

… the resilience observatory

A few days back Lee Spencer posted a comment on my “1 year on” post. He posed a question about the tools and techniques needed to measure resilience as an emergent property (i.e. without actually having a disaster to bring it out). It seems that Lee is not the only one feeling the need for [...]