The Resilient Culture by Liane Stephan & Silke Rupprecht & Chris Tamdjidi & Michael Mackay Richards Summary
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Discover how collective resilience transforms business success in today's disruptive workplace. Endorsed by UN advisors and featuring case studies from HSBC and F1 teams, this guide debunks resilience myths with practical frameworks. What if your organization's greatest competitive advantage isn't innovation - but regeneration?
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When Burnout Became a Business Strategy and the Myths That Keep Us Stuck
A legal team at a major corporation once celebrated their resilience by bragging about who could survive the longest on minimal sleep. Their badge of honor? Working through weekends, answering emails at 3 AM, and never taking vacation days. They called it "toughness." What they didn't realize was that they were confusing endurance with resilience-and slowly destroying their capacity to adapt, innovate, and ultimately perform. This confusion isn't unique to them. It's epidemic. Here's the uncomfortable truth: 44% of workers globally report feeling burned out, yet most workplace wellness programs still treat resilience as an individual problem requiring individual solutions. Meditation apps, gym memberships, and mindfulness workshops proliferate while organizational structures remain unchanged. But resilience isn't about how much pressure you can withstand before breaking-it's about how fluidly you can adapt when circumstances shift. And that adaptation requires more than personal grit; it demands what researchers now call "We-silience"-collective strength built into the fabric of organizational culture itself. Think about that colleague who seems invincible-the one who thrives on four hours of sleep, never appears stressed, and handles impossible workloads with apparent ease. We often attribute this to natural toughness, some innate quality the rest of us lack. But dig deeper, and you'll typically discover something else entirely: specific practices they've adopted, often unconsciously, that create genuine resilience. During one company town hall, a leader who claimed to be "just naturally tough" was pressed to explain his routine. Reluctantly, he admitted to practicing deep breathing exercises, protecting family dinner time religiously, and maintaining a weekly exercise schedule. These weren't random habits-they were textbook resilience behaviors. He simply didn't recognize them as such because they'd become second nature. This reveals our first dangerous myth: that resilience is fixed, something you either have or don't. While genetics influence about 30% of our resilience capacity, lifestyle choices and learned behaviors account for 40%-a significantly larger portion. Resilience isn't a personality trait; it's a set of learnable skills that can be systematically developed regardless of your starting point. The second myth is equally destructive: that resilience means enduring stress indefinitely without breaking. This misconception stems from resilience's origins in materials science, where it described a material's ability to return to its original form after being stretched. Applied to humans, this morphed into celebrating those who withstand excessive pressure-the "hero leaders" who power through despite exhaustion. But here's what neurobiology reveals: chronic stress actually reduces adaptability. As stress becomes prolonged, we become rigid, repeating ineffective behaviors with increasing intensity rather than adapting creatively. True resilience isn't about withstanding pressure-it's about shifting fluidly between different internal states as circumstances require.
The Inner Weather System and the Twelve Skills That Change Everything
Three Pathways to Building Personal Resilience
The Revolution Mindfulness Brings to Mind-Body Integration
When Teams Become Greater Than Individuals Through Collective Habits
Why Leadership Makes or Breaks Organizational Resilience
Building Organizations That Sustain Human Thriving and the Future of We-Silience
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