Prologue: A Tale of Fragility and Resilience
Life is reconciliation of opposites. It is death if war erupts between them.
Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi1
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky2
Welcome to our world of fragility and resilience. As the world becomes interdependent and tightly coupled in terms of organizations, supply chain networks, industries, countries, as well as individuals, information, and cash, fragility is imminent. Look at the economic and financial crises in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Interestingly, the mirror image of fragility is resilience. An individual, organization, supply chain network, industry, or country can continue to exist, however, only by ...
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