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#69 - The 3,000-Year Question: Does Longevity Equal Resilience?
Even the mightiest can fail. Ancient Egypt’s colossal achievements were buried under sand for centuries...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 263 min read
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#67 - Generational Change as a Driver for Progress
Does a community need generational change to progress from one stage of development to another? After an article about innovation...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 32 min read
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#58 - The Technology of Resilience: Insights from IBM’s Crisis Management Studies
A dear friend of mine, Marcin Kaluza, pointed me towards an IBM report that presents four case studies of resilient crisis management....
Pawel Pietruszewski
Nov 27, 20243 min read
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#57 - Let's have some resilient fun: How to (Not) Sabotage Your Organization
The "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is an amusing read, as many of the techniques are commonly applied in today's world.
Pawel Pietruszewski
Nov 20, 20244 min read
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#55 - Can Networking Impact your Resilience?
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a lecture and workshop led by Grzegorz Turniak, the legend of networking in Poland, at...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Nov 7, 20243 min read
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#51 - Sweden's and Switzerland's approach to innovation
Different Routes to Success Last week I was writing about Switzerland  in the resilience context. I had later a chat with a friend who...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Oct 9, 20245 min read
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#50 - What Did I Learn in Switzerland?
I spent the last nine years in Switzerland, and it is a significant amount of time. After such a period, the place becomes a part of you....
Pawel Pietruszewski
Oct 2, 20246 min read
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#49 - First Anniversary
First Anniversary I published the first post of the Resilience Institute on September 24th, 2023, on Facebook and LinkedIn. It evolved...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Sep 24, 20244 min read
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#47 Crafting a Lasting Legacy: Steve Jobs' Blueprint for Resilience
Steve Jobs thoughts about legacy and the links of his thinking with resilience.
Pawel Pietruszewski
Sep 11, 20243 min read
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#45 - Hurricane Katrina - When Central Intervention Goes South
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, 80 percent of the city was flooded. Central government vs Walmart approach.
Pawel Pietruszewski
Aug 28, 20243 min read
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#38 - Do we pay for what we respect?
How much is entertainment worth? Football match between France and Spain had a high financial weight. The highest paid athlete on the...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jul 11, 20244 min read
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# 36 Red Team Alert
Group Thinking: An Organisational Pathology Group thinking is an organisational pathology that can occur within any tightly knit group of...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jun 26, 20243 min read
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# 30 Culturisation - where culture meets standardisation
Culturisation is the place where culture meets standardisation. I have invented the term by combining "culture" and "standardisation"....
Pawel Pietruszewski
May 16, 20242 min read
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#25 The Magical Number 7: The Key to Improvisation
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to think on your feet? Maybe it was a surprise client visit or a sudden change in the...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 10, 20243 min read
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#21 Chasing Unicorns vs Minimalist Entrepreneurship
In The Minimalist Entrepreneur, Sahil Lavignia, the founder of Gumroad, presents his view on entrepreneurship, which I find very...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Mar 13, 20242 min read
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#19 Testing Team Boundaries in Sports and Business
Last year, the Polish national volleyball team won 29 from 31 official games, winning all important competitions in 2023: Men's Nations...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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#16 Be quick, be quiet, be on time
Kelly Johnson, the renowned design chief at Lockheed Martin, led his team to build the first U.S. military jet in just 143 days — seven...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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#12 Precedence of diversity over uniformity
The Stockholm Resilience Center's Planetary Boundaries course offers a profound introduction to Earth's resilience challenges. It...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 10, 20243 min read
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