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#73 - Mental Toughness and Resilience
Are the Terms Interchangeable? When the pressure’s on, do you grit your teeth and push through—or take a breath, pivot, and find a new...
Pawel Pietruszewski
6 days ago5 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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#65 - Let's have some resilient fun: Can Shopping Become an Adventure?
"Let's have some resilient fun" shows some important topics in a more relaxed and joyful way. After all, humour is quoted as a desirable...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 223 min read
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#64 - Living in a World of Sound
Izabela Dłużyk was born blind in 1989, and despite all odds, she made it to the BBC 100 Women List in 2023. Over the weekend, I read an...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 162 min read
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#63 - Numbers That Build Resilience: Understanding Equal Weighting
"Numbers That Matter: Simple Lessons for a Resilient Life!" Every number tells a story, and in this series, I dive into how those...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 93 min read
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#62 - Resilient New Year
How was your 2024, great, good, bad? Year-end is, for many of us, the time when we look back at our goals, evaluate, make New Year’s...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 23 min read
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#61 - What is the Relation Between Wealth and Happiness?
More evidence and perspectives are emerging that challenge the 20th-century growth-driven economy.
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 18, 20244 min read
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#56 Microsoft Flight Simulator - the Legend of Resilient Software Development
Resilience & Flight: Lessons from the Cockpit: In this series, I explore how the principles of aviation can help us build resilience....
Pawel Pietruszewski
Nov 14, 20243 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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#53 - Electrifying Innovation: How Energy Progress is Powering the Future
A simple solution to the global warming challenge would be to use less energy. However, this is not actually so simple because energy...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Oct 23, 20244 min read
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#52 - Can Poland become the Next Innovation Hub?
The Journey to the High-Income Club What a journey it has been! When I entered university in 1990, Poland's GDP per capita (expressed in...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Oct 16, 20244 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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#46 - Resilience & Flying - Decision Thresholds
The question of knowing when to stop is a critical one in many aspects of life.
Decision threshold can help to make it right.
Pawel Pietruszewski
Sep 4, 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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#44 - What is Information?
Numbers That Matter: Simple Lessons for a Resilient Life!" Â Every number tells a story, and in this series, I dive into how those stories...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Aug 22, 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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#37 Nothing like a good funeral to put things in perspective!
Memento mori is not about cultivating a fear of death, but rather about using the awareness of death for reflection on how we live.
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jul 4, 20242 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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