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Resilient or Adaptable?

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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
I am convinced that the pandemic has changed our lives forever and, as a result, the way we carry out our activities (personal and professional)

Do we have to be resilient or adaptable?
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Share your opinion here and complete the poll
https://www.projectmanagement.com/polls/67...t-or-adaptable-
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Luis -

that link is not working. Also, are you presenting these as separate choices as I believe we need to be both?

Kiron
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Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany
Luis,
I think we need both and more to excel.

Depending on whom you ask, being adaptable is a feature of resilience (along with redundancy, modularity, diversity, prudence, embeddedness). See HBR article by Martin Reeves
https://hbr.org/2020/07/a-guide-to-buildin...ilient-business

There are other descriptions, also antifragility coined by Taleb could be useful to look at.

(link does not work for me either)
Thomas
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 23, 2020 10:02 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Thomas.
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
I also appreciate the warning about the link
Below your comment I put a new link
I am convinced that the context will not be the same after this change brought about by Covid 19
Based on this premise and that resilience is different from adaptability, which will be more appropriate?
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nothing new below the sun. The key is reading and understanding Charles Darwin´s "Origin of Species" and Ludwig von Bertalanffy "General System Theory". With that on hand, nothing more to know except people like to been deeper on the third component which is consciousness to understand about how reality is created then they have to read and understand Roger Penrose "The New Emperor Mind". But the last one could be debatable. The first two has no debate.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 23, 2020 9:58 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Sergio
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
The concept of resilience applied to psychology and ecology is relatively recent compared to that of Charles Darwin at the origin of species (adaptability)
Apparently there is something new below the sun
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Asif Gul Consultant Project Manager| Energoprojekt Entel Muscat, Oman
One has to choose , for what to be resilient & for what to be adaptable, then has to choose to what extend. And that choice is more important and there comes your personality in picture.
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2 replies by Luis Branco
Dec 23, 2020 10:10 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Asif
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
Interesting your perspective when applied to each of us individually
Can the same concept be used in relation to the way we develop our activities in the project context?
Dec 23, 2020 10:10 AM
Luis Branco
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Kiron
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your warning, which I thank
This is the link:
https://www.projectmanagement.com/polls/67...t-or-adaptable-
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 21, 2020 1:59 PM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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Nothing new below the sun. The key is reading and understanding Charles Darwin´s "Origin of Species" and Ludwig von Bertalanffy "General System Theory". With that on hand, nothing more to know except people like to been deeper on the third component which is consciousness to understand about how reality is created then they have to read and understand Roger Penrose "The New Emperor Mind". But the last one could be debatable. The first two has no debate.
Dear Sergio
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
The concept of resilience applied to psychology and ecology is relatively recent compared to that of Charles Darwin at the origin of species (adaptability)
Apparently there is something new below the sun
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1 reply by Sergio Luis Conte
Dec 23, 2020 10:36 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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Not at all, nothing new below the sun. Just to put other reference, take a look to any sport in the documentation about how to be a sport coach. Unfortunately some people create new buzzwords on old concepts trying to sell something but the only thing they do is to contribute to general confusion. I am working from long time ago researching on human consciousness and those are items to take into account.
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 21, 2020 12:16 PM
Replying to Thomas Walenta
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Luis,
I think we need both and more to excel.

Depending on whom you ask, being adaptable is a feature of resilience (along with redundancy, modularity, diversity, prudence, embeddedness). See HBR article by Martin Reeves
https://hbr.org/2020/07/a-guide-to-buildin...ilient-business

There are other descriptions, also antifragility coined by Taleb could be useful to look at.

(link does not work for me either)
Thomas
Dear Thomas.
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
I also appreciate the warning about the link
Below your comment I put a new link
I am convinced that the context will not be the same after this change brought about by Covid 19
Based on this premise and that resilience is different from adaptability, which will be more appropriate?
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1 reply by Thomas Walenta
Dec 23, 2020 2:25 PM
Thomas Walenta
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Dear Luis,

Corona certainly changed our awareness of these things but I think it did not change their meaning, which is age-old, as Sergio says.

For me adaptability is / must be included in resilience. You are not resilient if you are not able to respond flexibly to severe changes.

I respect other mental models, but this one helps me.
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 22, 2020 5:34 AM
Replying to Asif Gul
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One has to choose , for what to be resilient & for what to be adaptable, then has to choose to what extend. And that choice is more important and there comes your personality in picture.
Dear Asif
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
Interesting your perspective when applied to each of us individually
Can the same concept be used in relation to the way we develop our activities in the project context?
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1 reply by Asif Gul
Dec 24, 2020 2:34 AM
Asif Gul
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Dear Luis, In context of Project , our resilience & adaptability is influenced by the Project constraints, assumptions & risks, along with our personality, principles & values. In my opinion, It makes a complex mix. For example , there are ground rules, do one has to be adaptable or resilient in the violation of ground rules?
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 22, 2020 5:34 AM
Replying to Asif Gul
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One has to choose , for what to be resilient & for what to be adaptable, then has to choose to what extend. And that choice is more important and there comes your personality in picture.
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