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Most organisations do not know whether they are becoming more resilient over time or simply surviving each disruption as it arrives. They have a sense — based on general impressions, the tone of leadership conversations, or the absence of a recent crisis — but not a structured assessment. Not a baseline. Not a comparison point. Not a way of distinguishing between an organisat...

Most organisations are remarkably insular in how they build resilience. They learn from their own experience — their own disruptions, their own recoveries, their own near-misses. The insight available from organisations that have navigated similar challenges differently, or the same challenge better, is largely left on the table.

The 2022 systematic review of 59 studies...

Most conversations about performance treat thriving as a destination. Get the right conditions in place, develop the right capabilities, build the right culture — and then you will be thriving. Maintain that state. Protect it from disruption.

The research on resilience, learning and sustained high performance tells a different story. Thriving is not a state to be achiev...

If you have invested in strong individual leadership development and the organisational KPIs you were promised still have not moved, you are not imagining it, and the programme was not necessarily wrong. Four separate bodies of evidence now converge on the same explanation, and the newest of them has just been tested with hundreds of billions of pounds of real enterprise spen...

There is a version of resilience that most people aspire to: the ability to get through difficult things and return, more or less intact, to the previous state. To bounce back to who you were.

My definition of resilience rejects this specifically. "Springing Forward with Learning" is not a recovery strategy. It is a permanent operating mode. The leader who has genuinely...