"The Five Principles of Organizational Resilience": This 2002 article by Michael A. Bell is from the Gartner archive; Gartner is an IT research and consulting firm. It describes how the five principals serve as the “underlying architecture” to resilient virtual organizations (RVOs), “yet another evolutionary stage as enterprises move from being highly responsive and agile to being agile, responsive, and resilient.”

Resilience Education : Dr. Mary Steinhardt of the University of Texas at Austin directs research on resiliency at the university’s College of Education, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. The site explains the studies on resiliency in progress as well as courses offered on this topic and includes recommended books as well as a resiliency bibliography.

To access the website, click here: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/steinhardt/index.htm.

The Resiliency Center:  The Resiliency Center is run by Dr. Al Siebert, author of The Resiliency Advantage. This web site includes several full-text articles by Dr. Siebert, a quiz to test personal resilience, and personal stories from people who have successfully used resiliency in their own lives.

To access the website, click here: http://www.resiliencycenter.com/index.shtml.

WFD Consulting: Resilience: WFD offers resilience services for a fee, but this page features their Organizational Resilience Scorecard for free, where you can “measure how your organization stacks up on the ten essentials for managing resilience” along with the scorecard results from mid-size and large employers.