The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

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		The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.

Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, organizations, businesses, communities, and cities have developed resilience in the face of otherwise catastrophic challenges:

• Medellin, Colombia, was once the drug and murder capital of South America. Now it's host to international conferences and an emerging vacation destination.
• Tulsa, Oklahoma, cracked the code of rapid urban development in a floodplain.
• Airbnb, Toyota, Ikea, Coca-Cola, and other companies have realized the value of reducing vulnerabilities and potential threats to customers, employees, and their bottom line.
• In the Mau Forest of Kenya, bottom-up solutions are critical for dealing with climate change, environmental degradation, and displacement of locals.
• Following Superstorm Sandy, the Rockaway Surf Club in New York played a vital role in distributing emergency supplies.

As we grow more adept at managing disruption and more skilled at resilience-building, Rodin reveals how we are able to create and take advantage of new economic and social opportunities that offer us the capacity to recover after catastrophes and grow strong in times of relative calm.

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“You have to read only one book: The Resilience Dividend by Judith Rodin…The book provides a tour de force of why and how resilience matters in different countries, industries and settings….Rodin's book will prove to be essential reading to leaders across sectors that are addressing the complexity of challenges facing humanity…The Resilience Dividend should be compulsory reading in the social investment community.” —Alliance Magazine

“An inspiring book about preparing for major disruptions…Using an astonishing array of real-life situations, Rodin illustrates how individuals, organizations, businesses and communities can develop resilience after suffering catastrophic challenges.”—The Missourian

"An inspiring and optimistic look at what humankind can do to respond to what appear insurmountable challenges"—Library Journal

“Rockefeller Foundation president Rodin writes in an expert and straightforward manner about the character trait of resilience, addressed here in socioeconomic terms and on nothing less than a global scale… While every author may hope to end a book with an indelible sentence, Rodin proves herself one of the select few who can pull this off.” —Publishers Weekly

"Humanity has long celebrated those able to avoid, overcome or bounce back from adversity. And, in an increasingly interdependent and volatile world, resilience has never been more valuable—or seemed in shorter supply. Indeed, as we strive to make progress in our communities, organizations and families, we must seek to understand and build resilience. With her new book, The Resilience Dividend, Judith Rodin provides valuable insights into the growing importance and transformative potential of resilience. Highly recommended for all those seeking to create lasting positive change in the world."— Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company

"The Resilience Dividend delivers powerful proof that building resilience helps individuals, communities and cities better recover from disasters and disruptions. Judith Rodin details connections between human, environmental and economic systems, and offers a strategy to proactively address the threats they face. This very important book will help tackle complex challenges today and well into the future."—Mark R. Tercek, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy and author of Nature's Fortune: How Business and Nature Thrive by Investing in Nature



"This book makes a compelling case, drawing on stories from countries and communities across the world, that resilience is not just a defense mechanism but a positive gain or dividend, with added value in economic and social terms. The message is timely, given the increasingly disruptive force of climate change and the need to encourage communities to respond positively. It is also a highly readable account because it relies on actual human experience."—Mary Robinson, President Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change

"From climate change, to economic adjustment, to the breakdown in political governance,the scale and complexity of threats and challenges in today's interconnected world are immense. This timely and insightful book by Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, reminds us that we urgently need to build greater resilience to enable individuals, businesses, and communities to prepare for both systemic disruptions and new opportunities in the world order.”—Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006) and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation

"In a world where disruption is a fact of life and uncertainty is guaranteed, Judith Rodin draws on years of experience to offer an inspiring look at how we can prepare for the unexpected-and by doing so makes our communities stronger, more prosperous and more connected in the process."— President Bill Clinton

"Judith Rodin's groundbreaking work at the Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities adapt to a changing climate–and a changing world. In her new book, The Resilience Dividend, she lays out a powerful case for why governments and companies should prepare for-and not just react to–disruptions to business as usual."—Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies, and 108th Mayor of New York City

"She is a good story teller, and her stories from the United States and around the world form the heart of the book… Crisis planners will find useful material in ‘The Resilience Dividend,' not just a “template for thinking” about crisis management but also, as Ms. Rodin puts it, the ‘methods for putting that thinking into practice.' The rest of us will take heart that, in a world of disruption, there are ways to cope with crisis and even, perhaps, grow stronger as a result.”—Wall Street Journal

网友对The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong的评论

Thesis is a take off from "risk management" in the corporate world, failing to do that you cannot bounce back. In her psychology field, human resilience been studied for decades and no real consensus as to why some individuals are tougher than others-a lot to do with attitudes? Then she applies her thesis to cites around the world...etc. Although filled with examples but I wish there were more DEPTH in understanding as to WHY for example Boston was so well preparied for unexpected catastrophies. It's the whys I am looking for as a reader not just the hows.

I watched Dr. Rodin on PBS the other night and immediately bought and read this book which is probably the most important one I've read in decades.

I work on other kinds of wicked problems involving war and peace. Rodin's book did an amazing job of sharpening my thinking about issues that eddy around resilience, including disruptive change, anticipating it, and working holistically to make the whole system better.

And there is more. The book is amazingly well written and filled with tremendous examples based on the Rockefeller foundation's work.

Kudos to Rodin and thanks to Rockefeller.

Chip Hauss
Alliance for Peacebuilding

A good qualitative description of community preparation and response to disasters from the perspective of building the capability of bouncing back - resiliency. Places significant emphasis on the social institutions that enable such resiliency to be developed and does a good job of using a variety of case studies to illustrate the points. Thus, I find the book strong on analysis and illustration but the fifth star would have been appropriate if it had also provided more insight on how to build resiliency across a broader range of disruptions and initial community capacity starting points. The Rockefeller Institute is clearly a leading institution in this area and this is a good place to start learning about the topic of community resiliency to disasters.

A must read by a brilliant woman and author. This is the "new mosaic" of being adaptable to change not only by big business but also by individuals within their own community.

by far the most boring book I've ever read. This book rambles on and is very specific to one career field. This should be a textbook.

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