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Insights and research on building capacity to withstand, adapt to, and recover from systemic shocks and crises. We explore strategies for organizational agility, societal preparedness, and long-term viability in an increasingly volatile world.

In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a man is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he says. “Gradually, then suddenly.” People have been quoting that line for a century because it describes how most real catastrophes behave. The warning signs are there for years, and nobody reads them until the floor goes.