Community Resilience   Resilient Action Item

Airbnb and the Unintended Consequences of ‘Disruption’.

CityLab.com. Tech analysts are prone to predicting utopia or dystopia. They’re worse at imagining the side effects of a firm’s success. The U.S. economy is in the midst of a wrenching technological transformation that is fundamentally changing the way people sleep, work, eat, shop, love, read, and interact.

Business Resilience   Resilient Action Item

How Two Local Communities Are Fighting Back Against the Trauma of Global Climate Change.

AlterNet. While repair, reconstruction and even relocation are essential elements of disaster response to ensure the immediate safety of community members, we need to identify ways to build community resilience before the storm. Efforts that focus on preventing climate change, addressing the impacts of climate …

Disaster Recovery Resilient Action Item

Early Success Is a Bigger Challenge for Many Entrepreneurs Than Recovering From Failure.

Entrepreneur. The lesson there is that your why will enable you to make tough decisions in the course of managing your business: Decisions like your brand’s image and products, hiring and managing employees, and your business’s continuity. The list isn’t exhaustive, but when you find early success, you’ll have a lot …