ABSTRACT
The core strategic purpose of resilience is to enable an organization to prepare itself to be able to survive and prosper. A highly resilient organization is more adaptive, competitive, agile, and robust than less resilient organizations. These organizations can anticipate, prepare for, and respond and adapt to everything from minor disruptive events to acute shocks and other effects of uncertainty. Resilience is enhanced by integrating and coordinating the various operational programs that are commonly found in a sustainability program. In order to build resilience into the operating structure of an organization, it is necessary to create a foundation that helps define the attitudes that affect organizational decisions and actions. The organization needs to promote and create universally shared expectations that strengthen its resilience. Learning is very important in the practice of resilience. An organization should constantly be improving its knowledge and sense making to incorporate resilience in decision making.
