ABSTRACT

The moment the first German forces reached the Channel coast, the bulk of the British, French and Belgian land forces were encircled. The French and their Allies remained complacently static and linear in their approach towards defensive consistency as their prevalent mode of resilience. Although a range of dissenting voices in French politics and higher military echelons were raised, voices concerning the erosion of resilient capabilities were in the minority and remained unheard until it was too late. Organisational Resilience is permanently under the threat of erosion, whether that be because of complacency, perception, uncritical satisfaction with one's organisation's performance, or the need to reduce costs in the short term, undermining the very capability of resilience in the long run. The erosion of adaptive innovation and performance optimisation goes hand in hand with an erosion of mindful; the erosion of a single approach to resilience tends not to happen in isolation but in conjunction with remaining approaches to resilience.