Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World To cope with these challenges, management needs a new paradigm that takes an integrated view of the built environment, the ecosystems, and the social fabric in which their businesses operate. Pursuin
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| Title | : | Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610915879 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-22 |
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Editorial : "Resilient by Design helps organizations to think about how to succeed, survive and adapt in our increasingly complex world. In order to survive, companies must account for social and environmental values in their systems, structures and processes. This book provides relevant lessons learned and frameworks for dealing with change."
As managers grapple with the challenges of climate change and volatility in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organization’s resilience—its capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change. Sudden natural disasters and unforeseen supply chain disruptions are increasingly common in the new normal. Pursuing business as usual is no longer viable, and many companies are unaware of how fragile they really are. To cope with these challenges, management needs a new paradigm that takes an integrated view of the built environment, the ecosystems, and the social fabric in which their businesses operate.
Resilient by Design provides business executives with a comprehensive approach to achieving consistent success in a changing world. Rich with examples and case studies of organizations that are designing resilience into their business processes, it explains how to connect with important external systems&
But regardless, I look forward to trying more of the recipes.
As many other reviewers have mentioned, the tips are extremely helpful. He describes in some detail his meeting (and early on as a mentor) and subsequent playing with guitarist Pat Metheny (the beautiful album of Carla Bley's compositoins "Dreams So Real" is where I first heard Metheny back in the days of vinyl), and how that affected and shaped both Metheny's and Burton's music.
Plus Burton talks at length about his on going involvement with the Berklee School of Music--as a student (who dropped out to play with Shearing), a teacher, an innovator of new music departments, his eventually becoming head of day to day operations for a school that has grown to 4,000 students in a variety of fields, and beginning an on-line department of music--all of which most fans don't know anything about. I purchased "Complete Color Coded Flash Cards for All Beginning Music Students" (5.25 x 4.125 x 2.875, 89 cards) by
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