“A business continuity and disaster recovery plan are essential to show organisational readiness in times of crises”

Organisational resilience is the organisation’s ability to “bounce back” after suffering trauma, loss or disruption. Traditionally, organisations rely on individual leadership to show resilience in a time of adversity and in most cases, organisational survival and success is closely correlated to leadership capability. However, even the most successful leaders have a resilience threshold – a boundary where “enough is enough”. Thus, organisations should have mechanisms in place to lessen the burden of survival on leaders in times of adversity.