Resilience Is a Strategic Advantage
Why the ability to change your mind is worth paying for.
Writing
Essays on resilience
Why the capacity to absorb shocks and adapt is a strategic advantage, built in calm years or not at all.
Resilience Is a Strategic Advantage
For many years, resilience has been treated as a personal quality. It is often described as the ability to endure difficulty, recover from setbacks, and keep going when circumstances become hard.
The importance of building local capacity
When a large scale disaster strikes the world watches. Twitter gets flooded with reports, pictures and prayers.
The Power of Preparedness – A story from Pakistan
In my trip to Pakistan earlier this year, I learned first hand about the power of preparedness at the community level. I visited a small “displaced” village on the banks of the Indus River.
The Value of Preparedness
Six weeks ago the devastating force of mother nature reminded us again how things can change in a matter of a few minutes. For the first time we were able to watch live images of the destructive power of tsunamis as they struck the coast of Japan following...