I wrote here recently about the need for resilience in challenging times. I went on to explore this theme in more depth in my newsletter, where I suggested that our drive for greater organisational efficiency has come at the expense of our ability to ‘bounce back’ from adverse circumstances and events. We need to swing the pendulum back the other way.
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On resilience
I define resilience as the ability of an individual or an organisation to deal with and to recover from adverse events. Our collective resilience has been tested extensively over the past few years. But it’s evident that personal, professional and corporate resilence is as important now as it has ever been.
Continue reading “On resilience”Building resilient public services
At the annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) last week, Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office, called on the government to explain how it will respond to failing public services in the new environment of increased competition and spending restraint. Continue reading “Building resilient public services”