CHAPTER 1: A WORLD OF DIFFICULTY

“We will bury you.”

Nikita Khruschev

We are fully immersed in a changing, challenging world, and equally immersed in a global context for our strategies and organisational approaches, which has a constant potential to outstrip our coping ability. With a global outlook in mind, and the need to be able to live and operate in a dynamic environment, a fundamental starting point for resilient thinking is to consider the impact of that context. To what extent does our external context influence our resilience? A consideration of the growth and metamorphosis of regional threats and impacts, alongside the genesis and development of new types of risks with which the wider international community may not yet be fully ...

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