Stronger for the strain
Organisational resilience and antifragility.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Resilience, Wellbeing and Adaptability
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Resilience can be a designed organisational capability rather than a matter of individual character. This module draws on Weick and Sutcliffe's five principles of high-reliability organisations, building on Roberts's earlier research, the defaults they replace, and the idea that failure is information, not embarrassment. It then sets out the attributes in ISO 22316 and BS 65000, compares the two frameworks and suggests where an ordinary organisation can start. Antifragility is a different idea from resilience, not a rebranding of it. Drawing on Nassim Taleb's work, this module sets out the spectrum from fragile to antifragile, where fragility hides in ordinary organisations, and the difference between a resilience plan and an antifragility plan. It introduces optionality, the barbell strategy illustrated by venture capital, and via negativa, and closes with practical questions for planning.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Describe Weick and Sutcliffe's five high-reliability principles and the everyday habits each one works against.
- Compare the high-reliability principles with the ISO 22316 attributes and judge which framework suits a given purpose.
- Plan a modest start in one team, such as making near misses discussable, and test your organisation against the five principles.
- Distinguish fragile, robust, resilient and antifragile responses to shock and identify where fragility hides in your organisation.
- Apply optionality and the barbell strategy to structure resources so that the downside is capped and the upside stays open.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 13Organisational Resilience as a Discipline: High-Reliability Organisations and ISO 22316Resilience can be a designed organisational capability rather than a matter of individual character. This module draws on Weick and Sutcliffe's five principles of high-reliability organisations, building on Roberts's earlier research, the defaults they replace, and the idea that failure is information, not embarrassment. It then sets out the attributes in ISO 22316 and BS 65000, compares the two frameworks and suggests where an ordinary organisation can start.40 min
- 14Antifragility: Beyond Bouncing BackAntifragility is a different idea from resilience, not a rebranding of it. Drawing on Nassim Taleb's work, this module sets out the spectrum from fragile to antifragile, where fragility hides in ordinary organisations, and the difference between a resilience plan and an antifragility plan. It introduces optionality, the barbell strategy illustrated by venture capital, and via negativa, and closes with practical questions for planning.38 min
Keep going.
Part of the Resilience, Wellbeing and Adaptability topic, also sold whole as Bend, don't break.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Mind, body and organisation, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Resilience that lasts, 6 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Bend, don't break, 11 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
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