(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Rapid and disruptive change threatens the adaptive capacity of organizations, along with the individuals and teams leading them. Based on more than a decade of global research and consulting, Joseph E. McCann and John W. Selsky outline five capabilities highly agile and resilient systems must possess in their book, Mastering Turbulence The Essential Capabilities of Agile and Resilient Individuals, Teams and Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 2012).

These capabilities must be:
1. Purposeful
2. Aware
3. Action-oriented
4. Resourceful
5. Networked

In addition, the authors illustrate how these capabilities can be assessed across four levels—individuals, teams, organizations, and their business ecosystems.

The goal is to develop these capabilities in tandem so that the individual, team, organization, and ecosystem have “High AR”—not just greater agility or resiliency, but both high agility and high resiliency.

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