Resilience begins with enterprise leadership setting the priorities, allocating the resources and making commitments to establish organizational resilience throughout the enterprise.
Leadership achieves a balance between risk taking a risk containment to ensure ongoing innovation, but in the context of prudent risk minimization. These two apparently conflicting objectives for leadership are framed in two Research Notes. “Risk Management for the Resilient Organization” (TG-14-9542) sets forth a systematic plan for mitigating risks throughout the Resilient enterprise. Meanwhile, "Risk-Taking is Good for Resilient Enterprises" (SPA-14-8080) provides a counterpoint in balancing risk aversion with risk taking. Leadership communicates clearly and decisively the organization's commitment to resilience and backs up pronouncements with requisite investments in facilities deployments, security systems, authentication procedures, controls and technology enhancements - all designed to create an infrastructure for a highly mobile and distributed work style. for insights into leadership's role in building an RVO,see "Leadership challenges For the Resilient Enterprise” For leadership's agenda for recognizing and responding to the challenges of multiculturalism in the context of organizational resilience, see "Fostering Resilience Through Multiculturalism (COM-15-0222 )