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There are a couple of ways to think about resilience.

The one we usually want to fall into is “rebounding back to normal.” After all, “normal” is the comfort zone and usually is our happy place.

The other way is to define resilience as “adapting to a new normal.” In this case, we have to admit that the world moves on, and the old normal may never exist again. Or parts of it might need to change.

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The future will be different than the past. That’s basic, right? Yet we love to make projections based on an expectation that only 2% will change.

Well, the pandemic upended all that. It felt like EVERYTHING changed.

As we achieve a high rate of vaccinations, we’d like to think that we will “return to normal” — namely, 2019. But it’s not happening. We’re moving into something new.

We expect our business leaders to have a clearer view of the future, or at least to act like they do. But we’re in a state where NOBODY really knows what the future holds.

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We all want the turmoil to end. Unfortunately, there’s a whole lot which we don’t control right now.

A whole lot that NOBODY controls.

We’re searching for the “return to normal,” or perhaps the “new normal.” Which is fine, but it can be a bit of an illusion.

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