By Diane Brady: As president of the Rockefeller Foundation, Judith Rodin is less attuned to making money than to giving it away. And yet The Resilience Dividend, her new book that goes on sale on Tuesday, is essentially a primer on how to identify and build sustainable value in any venture. That’s because resilience, the ability to adapt to change and bounce back from crisis, is about much more than surviving the next violent storm. It’s about creating a culture that makes you ready to withstand whatever comes your way.
… As Nancy Pfund of DBL Partners in Silicon Valley notes, “Resilience requires an attention to enhancing things like systems and communities” to make them more sustainable. For Pfund, that broader sense of mission was a key factor in deciding to back ventures including Tesla Motors (TSLA) and Pandora (P): “It made them willing to defy conventional wisdom.”…
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