The Resilience Dividend
Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
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Building resilience -- the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively -- is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.
Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, organizations, businesses, communities, and cities have developed resilience in the face of otherwise catastrophic challenges:
Medellin, Colombia, was once the drug and murder capital of South America. Now it's host to international conferences and an emerging vacation destination.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, cracked the code of rapid urban development in a floodplain.
Airbnb, Toyota, Ikea, Coca-Cola, and other companies have realized the value of reducing vulnerabilities and potential threats to customers, employees, and their bottom line.
In the Mau Forest of Kenya, bottom-up solutions are critical for dealing with climate change, environmental degradation, and displacement of locals.
Following Superstorm Sandy, the Rockaway Surf Club in New York played a vital role in distributing emergency supplies.
As we grow more adept at managing disruption and more skilled at resilience-building, Rodin reveals how we are able to create and take advantage of new economic and social opportunities that offer us the capacity to recover after catastrophes and grow strong in times of relative calm.
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Rockefeller Foundation president Rodin writes in an expert and straightforward manner about the character trait of resilience, addressed here in socioeconomic terms and on nothing less than a global scale. Resilience, Rodin explains, is the ability to "prepare for disruptions... recover from shocks and stresses, and... adapt and grow from a disruptive experience." The three primary such disruptions she identifies in today's world are "urbanization, climate change, and globalization." Rodin goes on to break down resilience into five characteristics, solidifying her argument with solid examples. The characteristics of resilience include "Aware," as seen in the aftermath of flash flooding in San Francisco in January 2004; "Integrated," exemplified by the success of M&M's in markets throughout the world; and "Adaptive," as embodied by many of New Orleans's African-American and Vietnamese-American residents following Hurricane Katrina. She also illustrates "Diverse" and "Self-Regulating" through the illuminating, respective counterexamples of fitness retailer Lululemon's over-reliance on a single fabric source and the mistakes that led to the Chernobyl disaster. While every author may hope to end a book with an indelible sentence, Rodin proves herself one of the select few who can pull this off.
