Resilience requires a kind of elasticity, an ability to stretch and reach but then to return, to spring back into a former shape—or perhaps to shapeshift into something new if the circumstances require it. Resilience is stretchy where optimization is brittle; resilience invites change where optimization demands continuity. But whether we’re talking

• The reality that you face


• Context-specific constraints


• Organizations as ecosystems


• Building upon the present


• Directional opportunism


• Diversity of thought


• Evidence-based granularity


• Engineer for robustness and resilience


• Internally driven evolution


• Management of connections between people