Resilience Alliance Blog
Resilience Characteristics
What is resilience? Based on a great deal of research and observation of people going through change, we have identified a set of characteristics that help people use their adaptation energy more effectively. Think of these characteristics as “change muscles.” We...
Instead of Resolutions…
David Maister, in his book "Strategy and the Fat Smoker," makes the point that most organizations are pretty clear on what they need to do to drive success. The challenge is actually doing it. I think this is true for individuals as well. We all know pretty much what...
Supporting Resilience in Organizational Change
Research Summary: Embodying Power
In the latest issue of Psychological Science, there was an article entitled "Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance," by D. R. Carney, A. Cuddy, and A. Yap. The authors posed research participants (who did not know the...
Research in France
I just talked to a professor in France who was exposed to the Personal Resilience Profile at a summer program at Harvard. He wants to use it in some business-related research. (I'll provide more specifics on the topic later.) It should be a nice collaboration, and...
Research Summary: Rumination and Goals
A recent article in Psychological Science suggests that people who tend to be depressive and get stuck in negative thoughts do better at tasks involving goal maintenance (stability) and worse on tasks involving goal-shifting (change). This is consistent with our...
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