It’s been 12 years since Mike Whitelaw was living in a constant state of adrenaline and high pressure situations, never knowing what the next day, let alone minute, would bring. It’s quite a different scene and pace, to his now Northern beaches lifestyle of morning runs along the coastline, followed by an ocean dip to […]
Resilience
Resilience: Nothing Happens Until You Burn the Boats
My last article surrounded R U OK Day, and explored the idea of personal resilience. This week I want to discuss how we can build organisational resilience– in other words, “Burn the Boats”. This idea stems from military history, surrounding the concept of moving forward and not retreating. There’s an old story from 1519, where Spanish […]