Resilience: From Recovery to Ascension

Resilience isn't about bouncing back to where you were. It's about bouncing forward.

When a crisis hits, everyone focuses on the storm itself—the all-hands-on-deck effort to stabilize. But the most common leadership failure happens quietly, after the storm passes.

The pressure to "return to normal" takes over. We survive, but we don't learn. Hard-won lessons evaporate, old habits creep back in, and the organization's resilience muscle weakens.

This failure to learn and adapt is a key driver of the "looming leadership crisis" experts are now warning about. It creates change fatigue and burnout, which drain your best people. It's why the same problems resurface years later.

Truly resilient leaders protect the crucial learning phase after a disruption. They know that capturing the learning is the victory.

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