Bureaucracy and community resilience
As you might imagine, I’ve had way too much experience with bureaucracies in my almost forty years working with the federal government. In the next couple of blogs, I’ll be looking at bureaucracy...
View ArticleBuilding Trust; Building Community Resilience
Charles Murray (in Coming Apart) presents data showing the breakdown of trust, especially in lower class communities. He asks “whether the remaining levels of social trust [in lower class communities]...
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Three – and a Half – Things I Think I Think About Community Resilience
No deep thoughts from me today; just three things touched lightly, and someone else’s deep thought – and since I strongly agree with it, I’ll take credit for half a thought. 1. Last week, the Energy...
View ArticleSustainability and Community Resilience: II. The Importance of Perceived...
In the last post, I talked about the importance of time in trying to understand the relationship between sustainability and community resilience. Another definition is useful in this discussion –...
View ArticleNot All Disasters are the Color of Doom
Recently, I read an interesting piece by Howard Pierpont, entitled “Is your organization prepared for this?” In the following, I’m going to quote and comment on what he wrote (with his permission)....
View ArticleAnother Riff on Leadership and Community Resilience
How important are leaders to community resilience? If we look at historians before 1850 (think Thomas Carlyle, for example), leaders are to history what pathfinders were to the pioneers – pointing the...
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Thoughts on Sandy: III. “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional”– Ernie...
Over on the Recovery Diva site, Claire Rubin linked to another sorry tale of political failure in the face of Hurricane Sandy. Mayor Bloomberg in NYC failed to order the evacuation of over 40 nursing...
View ArticleCrisis Coach Webinar Series
The short-term recovery effort from Super-Storm Sandy is in full swing. However, for those affected by the storm, the toughest part of their efforts to come back – their long-term recovery and...
View ArticleResilience and the “Founding Virtues”
Charles Murray in Coming Apart writes about the importance of what he calls the “founding virtues.” His basic argument is that American society has been developed on a foundation of Industriousness....
View ArticleTHE NEW RESILIENCE – HIGHER EDUCATION
As I continue to develop the concept of “The New Resilience,” today I’ll look at higher education – all education beyond high school. A fundamental fact that any discussion of higher ed has to...
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