Agency is owning our response — which begins by accepting even the circumstances we'd most like to reject. 

There's a quiet belief that separates people who move through hard circumstances from people who get stuck in them. It isn't optimism, and it isn't confidence. It's a particular relationshi...

Almost everything written about leadership resilience is built on a premise the research abandoned two decades ago: that resilience is a reserve of toughness, that some people have more of it, and that the job is to build more.

Here is what the field actually established. Resilience is common — t...