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this seemingly simple strategy—as I try to articulate in the cases, essays, and
reflections in this book—is in the organizational effort at constantly work-
ing at resilience. If there are two kinds of problems in the world, those that
are solved and those that are worked at, resilience definitely falls in the lat-
ter category.
My sincere hope is that you, the Reader, will find this book full of inno-
vative and practical ideas, as well as managerial persuasions, from which to
weave resilience. It is my personal mission to prove it’s no longer true that
“you can’t be more wrong than to be right before your time.” The impera-
tive of strategic resilience is to be right before it is too late.
Today, more than ever, we need to be right before our time. As we face
challenges to our environment, our organizations, and our very way of life,
the time for strategic resilience has, once again, arrived.