Tag: Resilient

Building Resilient Organizations Best practices, tools and insights to thrive in ever-changing contexts


Free Download Project Management Institute PMI, "Building Resilient Organizations: Best practices, tools and insights to thrive in ever-changing contexts"
English | ISBN: 1628257792 | 2022 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1419 KB + 1281 KB
In our tumultuous times, understanding and achieving resilience have never been more important. Some organizations have resilience in their DNA. They possess the agility of mind, culture, and organization to survive and thrive no matter what is put in their way. Building Resilient Organizations is focused on identifying what sets these enterprises apart, exploring the nature of resilience for organizations. Along the way, we discover some inspiring global examples of resilient projects in practice and some novel thinking for leaders to consider about what it takes to be resilient over the long haul. With contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world,

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Resilient Thinking Protecting organisations in the 21st century (2nd Edition)


Free Download Resilient Thinking: Protecting organisations in the 21st century (2nd Edition)
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0C69ZZFLD | 384 Pages | EPUB | 5.3 MB
Since the release of the first edition in 2012, a lot has changed in the world of risk and organisational resilience. Global conflict, political realignments, environmental disruptions, pandemics and disease outbreaks and cyber attacks are a plethora of threats that have and will continue to endanger the stability of the world. Alongside these risks and issues, technological and societal change is ushering in a new age of opportunity and progress.

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The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies


Free Download The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies by Robert C. Brears
English | EPUB | 2021 | 2283 Pages | ISBN : 3030424618 | 207.2 MB
The effects of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world with rising temperatures, changing precipitation levels, more frequent and severe storms and longer more intensive droughts threatening human life and livelihoods and damaging property and infrastructure. As such, society in all countries – both developing and developed – need to increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change, where resilience is the ability of a system to absorb stresses and adapt in ways that improve the overall sustainability of the system; enabling it to be better prepared for future climate change impacts.

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