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174: Resilience
01:38 - What Does Resilience Mean To The Panelists?
- John - [It’s] Like A Flexible Tree That Can Bend With The Wind Or Environment - It Does Not Resist Or Break
- Chanté - Tenacity And Grit And Being Able To Cope Or Withstand Something That You Didn’t Foresee - It Doesn’t Break You, It Makes You Stronger
- Antifragile
- Rein - [It’s] About Unforeseen Surprises
03:36 - Thoughts On David Woods - Four Concepts for Resilience
- Resilience As Rebound
- Resilience As Robustness
- Resilience As The Opposite Of Brittleness
- Resilience As Sustained Adaptability
04:49 - Applying Resilience To Leadership
- High Performance Organization - HPO
- People Make Up Companies
14:40 - The Difference Between Sustainability And Resilience
17:20 - Welcoming The Resilient Mindset
18:30 - Creating And Acknowledging Resilience
21:54 - Organization Resilience And Adaptive Capacity
- Richard Cook’s REdeploy 2019 Talk On The Resilience Of Bone
- Convincing Employers To Become More Resilient To Reduce Harm To Employees
27:15 - Resilience Related To Diversity And Inclusion
- Families And Communities
31:00 - Resilience Within Software Development
- Software Being Made Robust, Not Resilient
- Rejection Proof - A Parallel Between People And Software
- Casey Rosenthal REdeploy2019
36:27 - What Price Do We Pay For Not Prioritizing Resiliency
- Existential Risk
39:00 - Rein’s Wrap-Up On Resilience
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