Many businesses believe themselves to be nested in a stable environment and are confounded when things suddenly change, and the world today no longer is the same world it was yesterday. Adapt or transform, that is the question, and in Adaptive Fit Versus Robust Transformation: How Organizations Respond to Environmental Change, written by Cynthia Lengnick-Hall and Tammy Beck in 2005, both options are explored.  While adaptation may work temporarily, transformation and building a resiliency capacity is what works best in the long run. What is it about resilience that is so important, and most importantly, why?

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