Resilient Mind & Leadership
In every part is an adpative contribution to the whole.
 
Case studies have shown that some individuals are "naturally" more resilient than others even though they may have grown up under similar environmental conditions and psycho-social influences.

High resilience quotient individuals typically have a sense of purpose, or mission that eclipses personal defined needs. They believe in serving a cause larger than themselves.

Resilient organizations and communities share many of the characteristics that relate to individuals.

One of the Resilient Civilization key hypotheses is that core attitudes and traits can be cultivated at all tiers of the "social fabric" to build systemic resilience, measurable, adaptive capacity at-scale.

Emerging social networking technologies and collective intelligence, open space social technologies can be leveraged to create "at-scale" social resilience impact.

Building measurable organizational resilience requires the cross-linking or functional integration of often disparate elements that have been traditionally managed in stovepiped fashion.

Resilient Mind Traits

  • Demonstrate practical, realistic goals and objectives that can be achieved
  • Embrace optimism over pessimism, but remain grounded in the "ground truth" of the situation
  • Ability to resist "cognitive dissonance" and "complexity fatigue" 
  • Demonstrate good problem defining and solving skills
  • Are able to develop and test hypoheses quickly under stress and to select the most applicable innovation in non-linear ways
  • Ability to see the "whole system" rather than just silos of activity
  • "Whole brain" holistic processors who understand the importance of the balance between the rational left brain and the creative, intuitive right side of the brain
  • Acceptance of intuition as a legitimate and valued input to a problem
  • Learn from past mistakes and pursue alternative paths of problem solving
  • Persistent and dedicated to tasks on a daily basis
  • Good communicators who listen well and employ empathy as a valued approach
  • Leverage performance through collaboration 
  • Have a well-defined sense of themselves as being whole and complete
  • Have a sense of charting their own destiny and not a victim to fate or luck
  • Embrace a social responsibility ethos, "good citizen"
  • Embrace the concept of a purpose driven life