Business Resilience

It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning fifty years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to you to chart your own course to professional success. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the 10 most important ones to help you develop yourself, make the right career moves, navigate inevitable detours and disruptions, and turn your professional dreams into reality.

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

In 8 Steps to Better Security: A Simple Cyber Resilience Guide for Business, cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley delivers a grounded and practical road map to cyber resilience in any organization. Offering you the lessons she learned while working for major tech companies like Sophos, AT&T, BlackBerry Cylance, Tripwire, and Venafi, Crawley condenses the essence of business cybersecurity into eight steps.

Lisa Lisson's life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and would ultimately become president of the company. One night, after putting their four children to bed, her husband, Patrick, marvelled at their lives. Just a few hours later, Patrick had a massive heart attack and was in a coma. Part leadership guide, part memoir of loss, and part personal empowerment primer on how to achieve your goals, Resilience is an inspirational story.

In 2012, on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of his surgeons, and what doctors called a miracle, did Crenshaw's left eye recover partial vision. And yet, he persevered, completing two more deployments. Why? There are certain stories we tell ourselves about the hardships we face—we can become paralyzed by adversity or we can adapt and overcome. We can be fragile or we can find our fortitude. Crenshaw delivers a set of lessons to help you do just that.

This book will inspire you to: thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete; manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them; plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations; surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest; use challenges to become a better leader; use creativity to move past trauma; and understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.

How to be human at work. This four-volume set includes Happiness, Resilience, Mindfulness, and Empathy.

Pep Talk for When You Feel Abandoned After a Breakup. A Healing Meditation for Abandonment Wounds, Breakup Recovery, Emotional Resilience, and Rebuilding Confidence After Being Left. When your heart breaks, it can feel like you’re drowning in the wreckage — questioning your worth, your memories, even your future. But the pain you’re feeling is not the end of your story. It’s the beginning of your rising. In this powerful audio experience, you’ll find five soul-stirring pep talks designed to guide you through the deepest valleys of heartbreak and into the light of your own becoming.

Peak-performance psychologist Dr Alia Bojilova draws on her work with the SAS, Olympic athletes, modern leaders and successful entrepreneurs to help you unlock your potential in everyday life. Guiding you through a four-step process - to develop clearer awareness, deeper belonging, broader curiosity and stronger drive - The Resilience Toolkit will help you to embrace the unknown with greater confidence and teach you to recover faster from setbacks.

Bolstered with research, exercises, self-assessments, and real-life stories from people with natural burnout immu­nity and those who’ve cultivated it, Burnout Immunity teaches workers how to positively cope with stress and to enjoy healthier and happier relationships with work.

Explore transformative wisdom in The Katana Mindset, a unique guide that links the ancient art of Japanese sword-making to personal growth and resilience. Based on years of experience in Japan's hospitals, dojos, and monasteries, this book illustrates how forging a katana mirrors our journey toward strength and purpose.

Great minds like Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Dale Carnegie, and many more come together in this collection of memorable quotes about persistence, resilience, optimism, and success. These reflections will comfort, inspire, and motivate you daily. International best-selling author Marc Reklau shares his personal collection of motivational and inspirational quotes from the world’s greatest thinkers.

Adversity can often catch you by surprise and leave you struggling with what to do next. What if you could confront any adversity, from the biggest challenges - the loss of your job, divorce, health issues, bankruptcy - to normal daily challenges - a late flight, a disappointing phone call, a missed promotion, a bad day - and not just survive it, but thrive afterwards? Some people move through adversity, and others fall underneath it. Learn how you can be counted among those who will overcome.

Are you spending your energy wisely, or are you teetering on the brink of exhaustion? Whether you're an executive, an entrepreneur, or a community organizer, embodiment can help you find meaningful success in life and leadership. In The Mind-Body Way, wellness and leadership experts Courtney Amo, Dr. Julie Beaulac, and Casey Berglund use their decades of experience to reveal how tapping into the intuitive wisdom of your body makes you a better, happier leader—no matter the unique challenges of your everyday.

How do you know if you're going through a setback? And once you realize you're in one, how do you work through it? Some of the world's most prominent leaders attribute their setbacks to the reason they found success. Their lowest moments paved the way for their creative rebirth. Through the four phases of The Setback Cycle—Establish, Embrace, Explore, and Emerge—Amy Shoenthal guides listeners on how to make sense of their experiences, gain clarity on what comes next, and move confidently into future endeavors.

This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is an audiobook written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about; the behind-the-scenes struggles. The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments.

Presilience is for anyone looking to turn life’s challenges into opportunities. Packed with actionable advice, this book will help you not just survive, but thrive in an ever-changing world. Whether you are a business executive, leader, or an individual seeking to enhance your ability to navigate risk and embrace opportunities, Presilience provides a valuable road map for mastering risk and resilience in an increasingly unpredictable world.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. And over 640 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius. Increase your wisdom tenfold by listening to golden nuggets dropped by this roman emperor.

As a salesperson and sales manager, you know that it's harder to sell in tough times - whether it's a global pandemic, recession, or industry-wide challenge. But somehow there are always successful "tough-timers" that not only survive but thrive through tough times. What do they have - and what do they know - that keeps them on top?

Why do some people get stressed while others stay calm, cool, and collected under pressure? According to renowned stress researcher Dr. Derek Roger, the answer lies in resilience - your ability to cope with challenges and thrive under adversity - rather than ruminating and obsessing over them. In lab-controlled studies, he discovered that the key to “managing” stress is to stop it before it starts. To be resilient, flexible, and ready for anything.