The Resilience Dividend, Judith Rodin
The Resilience Dividend, Judith Rodin
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The Resilience Dividend
Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

Author: Judith Rodin

Narrator: Cyndee Maxwell

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/01/2014


Synopsis

Building resilience—the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively—is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.

Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, organizations, businesses, communities, and cities have developed resilience in the face of otherwise catastrophic challenges:

• Medellin, Colombia, was once the drug and murder capital of South America. Now it’s host to international conferences and an emerging vacation destination.
• Tulsa, Oklahoma, cracked the code of rapid urban development in a floodplain.
• Airbnb, Toyota, Ikea, Coca-Cola, and other companies have realized the value of reducing vulnerabilities and potential threats to customers, employees, and their bottom line.
• In the Mau Forest of Kenya, bottom-up solutions are critical for dealing with climate change, environmental degradation, and displacement of locals.
• Following Superstorm Sandy, the Rockaway Surf Club in New York played a vital role in distributing emergency supplies.

As we grow more adept at managing disruption and more skilled at resilience-building, Rodin reveals how we are able to create and take advantage of new economic and social opportunities that offer us the capacity to recover after catastrophes and grow strong in times of relative calm.

About Judith Rodin

Judith Rodin, coauthor of Making Money Moral, is a pioneer, innovator, change-maker, and global thought-leader. For over two decades, Dr. Rodin led and transformed two global institutions: The University of Pennsylvania and The Rockefeller Foundation. Her leadership at Rockefeller ushered in a new era of strategic philanthropy that emphasized large-scale partnerships with business and government to address and solve for the complex challenges of the twenty-first century, and championed two new fields that are at the forefront of current thinking: resilience and impact investing. Dr. Rodin has served as a board member of nine leading public companies, including Citigroup, Comcast, and Aetna, as well as numerous venture-capital backed startups, and nonprofits including The Brookings Institution. She has been the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorate degrees, numerous prestigious honors, and is a sought-after speaker for influential global forums including The World Economic Forum, the United Nations General Assembly, and the Vatican Global Forum. Dr. Rodin has authored more than 200 academic articles and chapters, and has written or cowritten fifteen books, including The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa

As a practitioner in the field of climate change resilience, I was thrilled to find such a timely book on the topic. This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn how cities everywhere are thinking about how they can avoid disastrous consequences through resilient thinking. Most of the book is la......more

Goodreads review by Alex

Provides overall view of a select few disasters, recovery from them, and the lessons learned along the way. Lacked detail about the inner workings of each scenario, both in the details of the incidents and recovery from them. At times it felt like a victory lap on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundatio......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I enjoyed the themes of this book and the case studies. However, I thought the writing was a bit lengthy. It was difficult to stay interested over the duration of the book. You could skim the middle and focus on the first and last chapter and get a solid understanding of the book and it's suggestion......more

Goodreads review by Amie

So I straight up thought this was one of those personal resiliency books ala brene brown style. And part way through the intro i was getting cheesed thinking the examples she was getting into were really trite. OH BOY was I glad to realize it was a book about cities and disasters and disaster manage......more