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Resilience
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Resilience

Why Things Bounce Back

Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy
Free Press, 2012

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Innovation consultant Andrew Zolli and journalist Ann Marie Healy draw examples from widely diverse economic, natural and social systems to explain the nature of resilience, its significance and the factors that contribute to it. The concepts in this complex exposition apply to society today and will become increasingly relevant as world systems become progressively interconnected and stressed. Even though Zolli and Healy offer no easy answers, their treatise outlines ways to augment systemic resilience. getAbstract recommends this ambitious work to futurists, risk managers, crisis management planners and systems thinkers.

Take-Aways

  • Resilience enables a system to bounce back from a crisis.
  • Resilience is a complex quality found in systems as diverse as finance and ecology.
  • Systems can remain robust when expected stresses hit. However, they are vulnerable to new attacks.

About the Authors

Andrew Zolli directs the global innovation network PopTech and was a National Geographic Society fellow. Ann Marie Healy is a journalist, playwright and screenwriter.

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