Complexity, Emergence, Resilience …
Future is inevitable, but it may not happen
Jorges Luis Borges
If safety is simply taken as the ability to operate without killing (too many) people, organizational resilience does not necessarily mean safety. If resilience is be taken as the intrinsic capacity of an organization to recover a stable state (the initial one or a new one) allowing it to continue operations after a major mishap or in presence of a continuous stress, then the ability of an organization to ensure its own survival/operations against adverse circumstances may well imply being momentarily unsafe for its members, or other stakeholders. A good example of that is a country in war, defending itself against ...
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