Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
Andrew Zolli
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The small scale of the groups within such networks helps them remain agile, while the many-to-many ties in the larger network ensure that even if 10 percent or 20 percent of its membership is eliminated, the network as a whole will continue to function. "How many times have we killed the number three in al-Qaeda? In a network, everyone is number three," notes [US Naval Postgraduate School professor of defense analysis Dr. John] Arquilla, dryly.”
“The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.”
“Eight weeks of practice in meditation, even with those with no previous experience, was enough reconfigure the brains of participants. The gray matter which fuels worry shrank, and the area associated with healthy thought awareness group.”
“The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.”
“The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.”
“The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.”
“Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.”
“Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.”
“Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.”
“Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.”
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