Table of Contents

Section I: Preface: Even a Good/Fast Strategy is Not Enough: Black Swans, Fat Tails, and Failures of Imagination; Section II: Setting the Stage; Chapter 1. Defining Resilience as Capacity to Survive; Chapter 2. Buffering: Survivability as a Resource Issue; Chapter 3. Robustness: Survivability as a Design Issue; Chapter 4. Adaptation: Survivability as a Fitness Issue; Chapter 5. Sisu: Survivability as Inner Strength; Section III: Watching the Resilience Theatre; Chapter 6. Resilience in Action; Chapter 7. The ODDsters (at AT&T); Chapter 8. The Jampions (at Best Buy); Chapter 9. SunRay (Sun Microsystems); Chapter 10. Innovation Democracy, Inc. in Afghanistan; Chapter 11. The Finnish Winter War; Section IV: Rehearsing a Culture of Resilience; Chapter 12. Resource-scarce innovation; Chapter 13. Evolvable, experimental designs; Chapter 14. Lots of practice; Chapter 15. Mental strength; Chapter 16. The issue of preparedness and reservesSection V: Conclusion: When Swans Fly: Why Resilience Must Replace Strategy in Uncertain Times

About the Author

Dr. Liisa Valikangas (Helsinki, Finland) is Professor of Innovation Management at Helsinki School of Economics. She was invited to the chair in 2007. Her areas of research are innovation, strategy and global change. Previously, she was Managing Director and Research Director of the Woodside Institute-a professional research organization dedicated to advancing innovative management practice and organizational resiliency - which she founded in 2002 with Gary Hamel. She is also a founder and President of Innovation Democracy, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to supporting innovative entrepreneurship in countries of importance to world stability. Her research on innovation, strategy and organizing has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT/Sloan Management Review, the Wall Street Journal, Long Range Planning, and other leading journals. Beyond her research activities, she regularly gives presentations to executive audiences in public and private forums. She works with a number of leading corporations and governmental organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia in an advisory capacity.