Imagine if we stopped trying to “manage” the stress in our workplaces and personal lives. What if we recognized, instead, that the challenges we face every day could actually make us stronger, smarter, and more successful. We wouldn’t feel victimized by the stress in our lives; with a change in how we view these challenges, we become capable of resolving them and winning the day. Global businesses, governments, and communities are profoundly changing their approaches to adversity and challenges. The Resilience Advantage reveals the techniques and methodology we all can apply in our workplaces and homes. Filled with professional and personal stories, pragmatic research, powerful case studies, and practical actionable tools, this book IS the formula to help each of us turn our challenges into our Resilience Advantage.
A renowned psychologist and author of The Survivor Personality offers practical, inspiring strategies and techniques for turning life around by enhancing energy, encouraging positive emotions, and developing a talent for serendipity.
The classic guide to what makes people survivors, now in a revised and updated new edition.
Just as students in martial arts must learn basic skills before they can acquire higher levels of skill, this book shows how certain basic resiliency skills provide the foundation for mastering higher-level abilities.
But the focus of the book is on resilience—the ability to bounce back from disruptions and disasters—by building in redundancy and flexibility.
Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, organizations, businesses, communities, and cities have developed resilience in the face of otherwise catastrophic challenges: Medellin, Colombia, was once the drug and ...
... 281-282 media relations , 93-94 medical global contagious events disruption , 32 Medtronic , business continuity ... 235 Mid - Atlantic Mutual Assistance ( MAMA ) , 99 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ( MERS ) , 32 Midwest and Mid ...
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This practical guide is full of concrete suggestions, experiential practices, personal examples, and insights into the brain. It includes effective ways to interact with others and to repair and deepen important relationships.
While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives, and in Resilience, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an unsentimental and ultimately ...