Thriving in the face of disasters: What we can and should be doing to mitigate destruction and advance resilience | CIOReview

With the increasing frequency and intensity of storms, disasters are not rare and unknowable events -- but "this reality should not be a source of angst and despair for it turns out that the discipline and dynamism that comes from embedding resilience across a business enterprise results in firms that perform better on blue-sky days," Global Resilience Institute Founding Director Dr. Stephen Flynn explains in a recent article.

Thriving in the face of adversity | A series on personal resilience

If you have any doubt that, in the words of Ben Okri, “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering,” than you haven’t met Sgt. 1st Class Greg Robinson, a combat engineer who became the first soldier with an amputated limb and prosthetic to complete the Army’s Air Assault School—a course so grueling his prosthetic broke twice.