Culture

Remember that time when everything went wrong? The meticulously crafted plan, if you had such a thing, crumbled before your eyes. Today's business world is like that. With so much changing so fast, planning alone isn't enough. We need resilience. In today's interconnected, complicated and fast-paced world, resilience has to be more than just a buzzword. It is a necessity to be sustainable. But what does it mean? How does an organisation become resilient? And what is needed for true resilience? More often than not, resilience is described as the ability to “bounce back” after an adverse event. When an event disrupts an organisation’s business, resilience would therefore mean dealing with it and ending in the same spot where you’ve started. Is that true resilience though? Being able to respond, maybe. Being in the same spot as before? Probably not. That would, for starters, indicate that the organisation [...]