Emotional Intelligence

Resilience is a hot topic in business these days.

Resilience can be learned.

Resilient people possess three characteristics: a staunch acceptance of reality; a deep belief that life is meaningful; and an uncanny ability to improvise.

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation.

When you’re in financial services where so much depends on technology, contingency planning is a major part of your business.

Resilient organizations are stuffed with bricoleurs.

One person cannot seem to get the confidence back after a layoff; another, persistently depressed, takes a few years off from life after her divorce.

He milled around the newsroom day after day, mentoring the cub reporters, talking about the novels he was writing—always looking forward to what the future held for him.

Why do some people suffer real hardships and not falter?

Indeed, resilience is one of the great puzzles of human nature, like creativity or the religious instinct.