An organization’s financial health is tied inextricably to the community’s overall health and resilience and vice versa. And, both require a laser like focus on […]
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John Gardner, HEW Secretary in LBJ’S cabinet and founder of COMMON CAUSE AND INDEPENDENT SECTOR, was fond of saying that a problem is “just a […]
Individuals and organizations become and remain resilient with a strong sense of purpose, clear values and an adaptive approach. A number of years ago, I […]
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It feels important to begin to answer this question by noting that I have never been a staff member or board member who watches the […]
Over the course of a year, an organization will ebb and flow, just as our earthly days flow between night and day and back to […]
At the end of a long summer afternoon, a sparrow flies low across a patch of purple lupine. To my surprise, it lands, bending the […]
At the annual The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) conference in Boston earlier in the month, we had the opportunity to hear Richard Weissbourd, of […]
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In my second post for the Resilience Initiative Executive Series entitled, “Resilience Needs the Equilibrium of Both/And,” I wrote about the importance of creating and […]
Like so many things, institutional resilience deepens when it is a BOTH/AND.
[For me, the definition of resilience is the ability to reveal one’s strengths clearly in the face of adversity. Resilience doesn’t exist externally to us, […]