
The adaptive cycle as a dynamic map for resilience thinking

In general, “resilience shifts attention from purely growth and efficiency to needed recovery and flexibility. Growth and efficiency alone can often lead ecological systems, businesses and societies into fragile rigidities, exposing them to turbulent transformations.
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
Adaptive challenges can only be addressed through changes in people’s priorities, beliefs, habits, and loyalties. Making progress requires going beyond any authoritative expertise to mobilize discovery, shedding certain entrenched ways, tolerating losses, and generating the new capacity to thrive anew.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems
Exploring circular governance across eight nested scales, emphasizing material, social, and energy flows, aimed at fostering bio-regional regeneration and resilience through systemic design principles and collaborative interactions.
tobiasluthe.deas you add links, to test them also as “loops.” Identify each new loop as “balancing” (moving toward stability) or “reinforcing” (pushing growth or decline) based only on its behavior: regardless of the number of factors or elements it contains, or its position in the diagram.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
When we understand the dispositional state of a system, we can also recognize Kairos moments, opportune times when the system is poised for change.