Building Resilience: How to Move Past Fear Into Real Toughness as a Team

Resilience. It's something every one of us needs in a disruptive world. But it's also something we have to be ready to achieve before the disruption hits if we want to maximize our ability to bounce back. Preparing to be resilient is part of our roadmap to success as we continue to navigate continuous disruption. Our only challenge is figuring out how to prepare for resilience.Enter the U.S. military. According to the U.S. Army War College, militaries operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous battlespace. As such, they have to be prepared to be resilient, to be able to bounce back after a loss and rebuild quickly en route to victory. The U.S. military, and specifically fighter aviation, offers a roadmap to resilience success. It offers us an approach to Building Resilience.Our five authors are all former U.S. Air Force fighter pilots. They each have compelling stories to tell. But most importantly, they each offer a roadmap to resilience that can be applied by anyone in truly any setting. Together they provide us with a flight plan for Building Resilience.