Tuesday 13 November 2012

How to be Resilient – Face Reality, Find Meaning, Creatively Improvise.

Diane Koutu, writing for Harvard Business Review, suggests 3 very useful distinctions around being resilient. I like them because it addresses some of the weaknesses of otherwise excellent schools of thought such as Martin Seligman's  Learned Optimism – namely that it encourages people just to soldier on and put a brave face on things and not ask for help which can be seen as failure. Read the post.

Ken Thompson (aka The BumbleBee) blogs about bioteams, virtual collaboration and business simulation at www.bioteams.com