Resilient Thinking: Protecting Organisations in the 21st Century

CHAPTER 4: BREAKING FREE FROM CONVENTIONAL THOUGHT

In this chapter, we will cover the need to move on from the idea that models and frameworks are fully effective, and think about the need to develop originality in thought.

The twenty-first-century checklister

Up to this point, we have only briefly discussed the checklist culture, and the idea that it can be useful for some people to rely upon frameworks to provide them with the guidance that they need to conduct their essential activities. This is fine if you want to be limited and engender a dependence upon recycled information which may not necessarily be applicable in all cases. The fact that flexibility, one of the most overused and under-applied words in management, is probably a fundamental ...