Resilient

Stocks tumbled Tuesday as investors fretted about the resiliency of the consumer, amid further concerns about the subprime lending industry, disappointing retail-sales data and weakness in the tech sector.

I've been to the Apple store today, only to recieve a new model of Magsafe that is more resilient to bending than the old model. Having had about two of them broken and a host of other issues with the Macbook family, I suggest that if you have issues with your older Magsafe, you must go get your right.

On February 27, the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business ran a roundtable discussion on how companies can build needed adaptability and resiliency into an enterprise. The roundtable, hosted by Bechtel, was part of the Thought Leadership Roundtable on Digital Strategies and included ING, IBM, Hasbro, Eaton, and SYSCO.

Befriending your body is the only way of coming to understand that your body is resilient and that it knows what to do, and that it will be whatever you ask it to be. But you have to ask it to be that in a place of nonresistance.

We're attacking global warming with a lot of hot air -- with strategies that will never work. Although many activists have been pushing for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, what we really need is resilience and adaptation. Significant reductions of emissions will be too costly, too little and too late. ...