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The pace at which companies now find themselves confronted with new, diverse, and complex financial, political, or environmental risk or turbulence continues to spiral. In circumstances like these, only the flexible and adaptable will thrive – providing, that is, they can sustain a positive take on the inevitable changes. Against this revised backdrop, top management’s key role is to forge a culture of resilience throughout the organization.

CHRIS GARDNER is forever running. He runs to get to the office on time; he runs to pick up his son from daycare; he runs to recover a precious item of medical equipment that’s been stolen from him; and he runs to get a bed for the night at the homeless shelter. The authentic and moving story of the Afro-American fund manager and millionaire Chris Gardner, who first loses everything – his job, his wife, and finally the roof over his head – following a poor investment decision is now a Hollywood movie (The Pursuit of Happyness) with Will Smith in an Oscar-nominated role as Gardner. Gardner/Smith takes that particular pursuit, which is anchored in the American Declaration of Independence, seriously and after surviving a whole string of setbacks makes the most of a tiny opportunity that fate throws his way. Under almost impossibly difficult conditions, he starts an unpaid internship at a fund management company, because there’s a single job on offer for the best of the many candidates. And ultimately he gets that job.

Read full article "Riding the waves - Shorter economic cycles call for new levels of inner strength and responsiveness" in the edition of 
THE FOCUS on Resilience.