Today's healthcare environment is packed with mounting pressure and rapid change which demands a resilient leader.Doug identifies foundational, yet actionable, principles that healthy physicians practice to be resilient. To build a stronger resiliency muscle, Doug takes you on a journey of uncovering sustainable strategies to do so. By applying these strategies, you will experience freedom from self-limiting beliefs and be open to engage a thriving mindset. The quest is worth it!

Homegrown Fundamentals We've been asked through the years, "What kind of doctors are you anyway?" Our usual response is, "The idea kind, we try to make sense of things". Meaning making, as we define it, is the process we use to analyze and interpret social reality, our relationships, and how we respond to challenges. Writing columns for the Guam Sunday Post has provided us with a platform for sharing our insights on island life, our own experiences and the collective challenges we face as a Pacific community. Thus, the series title, Homegrown Fundamentals, which features our thoughts on key issues from the ground up. While much of our writing is Guam-centered, the issues we raise have resonated with other Pacific Island communities undergoing similar challenges as well as with virtual readers in other regions. Our columns, Cho'cho' Saina and Dr. B Speaks, are culturally grounded and based on social science perspectives. In responding to the recommendation that our columns be made available in book format, several major themes emerged. The first of several collections in this series, The Resiliency Quest, features columns that examine adversity and trauma. We offer best practices for overcoming setbacks, bouncing back, and building resiliency and wellness. We have laid bare some of the personal and collective injuries endured in our island community and have introduced strength-based solutions for healing.

Today's healthcare environment is packed with mounting pressure and rapid change which demands a resilient leader.Doug identifies foundational, yet actionable, principles that healthy physicians practice to be resilient. To build a stronger resiliency muscle, Doug takes you on a journey of uncovering sustainable strategies to do so. By applying these strategies, you will experience freedom from self-limiting beliefs and be open to engage a thriving mindset. The quest is worth it!

Resiliency--the ability to adapt to life's changes and crises--is key to a healthy, productive life. Based on his deep knowledge of the new science of resiliency, Dr. Al Siebert explains how and why some people are more resilient than others and how resiliency can be learned at any age. Through anecdotes, exercises, and examples, Dr. Siebert details a unique five-level program for becoming more resilient.

"Resilient by design provides managers with a more complete approach to creating lasting success in a changing world. Rich with examples and case studies, it explains how to connect the external systems, stakeholders, communities, infrastructure, supply chains, and natural resources, to create innovative organisations that survive and prosper." --Publisher description.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A "RESILIENT" ORGANIZATION? It means you are not a prisoner of past performance, good or bad; you don't rely on the right leader alone for success but build the capability to be resilient into the organization. You constantly rehearse the culture of anticipating and responding to change, and you innovate even when you don't yet need to. You don't just survive, you thrive--amidst challenge and opportunity. This essential guide, written by a renowned expert in global resilience strategy, shows you how to be smart about success and failure. With these field-tested forward-focused tools, you can: SURVIVE SHOCKS AND SETBACKS TURN THREATS INTO OPPORTUNITIES ANTICIPATE CHANGE BEFORE IT HAPPENS ENSURE YOUR SUCCESS IS SUSTAINABLE As a bonus, the book features Postcards from the Resilient Edge, a powerhouse selection of frontline lessons from leading corporations that demonstrate ways you can marshal skill and master luck to take control of your organization's destiny. THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW RESILIENCE MOVEMENT One of the most powerful trends born of the New Recession, resilience has become the operative word for business leaders and entrepreneurs facing an unpredictable market. On the forefront of this movement, global innovator and strategy consultant professor Liisa Välikangas has created a step-by-step system of proven survival strategies you can put into action immediately. Whether you need to bounce back from a downturn, take the fight to new competitors, or change your game plan at a moment's notice, The Resilient Organization shows you how to rethink your current strategies--and rebuild your company’s foundation--using four basic tools . . . INNOVATION with high impact and low overhead DESIGN that is robust, sustainable, and evolvable ADAPTABILITY to changing circumstances STRENGTH in the face of adversity By creating a culture of resilience in your organization, you'll be prepared for any challenge the future might hold. The Resilient Organization's fascinating case studies provide real-world examples of resilience in action: how to recover faster from hardships, how to experiment on new opportunities in a timely manner, how to avoid repeating bad business decisions, and when to scrap old strategiesthat just don't work anymore. Using the timetested principles of resilience, you can find golden opportunities in any situation--whether it's tough competition, reduced resources, or a roller-coaster market. If you're strategically resilient, you not only survive crises, but you can turn these crises into opportunities. LIISA VÄLIKANGAS, PH.D., is professor of innovation management at the Aalto University School of Economics (formerly Helsinki School of Economics) in Finland. She is the cofounder and president of Innovation Democracy, a nonprofi t global organization dedicated to supporting local innovation and entrepreneurship. Her research on innovation, strategy, and organization has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT/Sloan Management Review, and The Wall Street Journal. With Gary Hamel, she coauthored the Harvard Business Review article "The Quest for Resilience" and cofounded the Woodside Institute, a research organization dedicated to advancing management innovation. Professor Välikangas currently divides her time between Helsinki and California.