The crucible of leadership written by Warren G Bennett…

The crucible of leadership written by Warren G Bennett and Robert. Jay Thomas. : The essentials of leadership. The most critical scale of the four is what we call adaptive capacity. This is in essence, applied creativity and almost magical ability to transcend adversity, with all its attendant stresses, and emerge stronger than before

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Mental Toughness by HBR

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The resilient, studied closely, do three things: they face down reality squarely, rehearsing survival before the fact rather than denying the danger; they search for meaning in what has happened; and they improvise, making do with whatever is at hand — and you can have one or two of those and bounce back, but you are only truly resilient with all three. The deepest version of this is what one researcher called adaptive capacity: the almost magical ability to transcend adversity, with all its stress, and come out the other side stronger than before. Acceptance is part of it — and acceptance does not mean you have to like what happened or justify it; it only means deciding you can live with it, and then turning your attention to what you can still control. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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