Building resilience into your personality and your business
A wag once said that the only one who really likes change is a wet baby, yet we face continuous, dramatic and ever-accelerating change in both our personal lives and work lives.
What we learned at our grandparents’ knees half a century ago doesn’t fit the 21st century world. When our grandchildren sit on our knees, it’s more likely they’re teaching us about a new app for our cellphone than learning from us.
Many of us work in occupations that didn’t exist when we were asked as children what we wanted to be when we grew up. Even if the job title is the same, what we do is different.
Dealing with change, especially in our careers and organizations, requires an amazing level of resilience. Otherwise it will overwhelm us. Fortunately there’s help in acquiring such resilience in a new book by Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell called Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry.