Resilience from Within

What are the secrets of companies that remain successful over decades? The successful ones pay attention to the impermanence of things, they remain non-attached to their original ideas, they cultivate mindfulness, and wisdom. These qualities are all also important in personal resilience from the Buddhist point of view. This talk will show, through practical examples, how individuals and companies who paid attention to those principals are still thriving, whereas the ones that didn’t pay attention went under. Some examples will be taken from Gilbert and Haseltine’s book Riding the Monster: Five Ways to Innovate Inside Bureaucracies.