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Four Days in the Office Won’t Fix a Product Problem

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General Mills announced yesterday that most of its North American headquarters employees will be in the office four days a week starting September 8. The current return to office mandate is three. CEO Jeff Harmening tied the change directly to disappointing business performance. The implicit logic: if our people were in the office one more …

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The 2025 Resilience Imperative: Lessons from the WEF Pulse Check and Bryghtpath’s Playbook

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In early 2025, the World Economic Forum’s Resilience Pulse Check revealed a striking paradox: while leaders overwhelmingly acknowledge resilience as a top strategic priority, most organizations remain dangerously underprepared. According to the survey, 84% of companies admit they are unprepared to navigate today’s complex, interconnected disruptions. These disruptions are no longer isolated or predictable—they emerge …

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How to Implement the Resilience Operating Model®️

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By now, you understand the parts of a high-performing resilience system. You’ve seen the eight core domains that must align. You’ve explored the enabling functions that make them work together. But understanding the model isn’t the same as operating it. This article is about that next step: implementation. How do you take the Resilience Operating …

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The Enabling Functions That Make Resilience Actually Work

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Strong plans aren’t enough. Clear roles aren’t enough. Even aligned domains — business continuity, crisis, DR, comms, cyber — aren’t enough on their own. You can have all the right capabilities and still watch your response fall apart when it matters most. That’s because resilience doesn’t succeed with good content. It succeeds with good systems. …

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The 8 Core Domains of Resilience: What Every Organization Must Align

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In most organizations, resilience doesn’t break because one team failed — it breaks because too many teams respond independently. Cyber launches an incident response. Crisis Management assembles a separate team. Comms writes a message that Legal hasn’t reviewed. Meanwhile, business continuity and disaster recovery leads are still trying to understand the impacted systems or processes. …

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Introducing the Resilience Operating Model®️: A System for Performance Under Pressure

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Most organizations today don’t suffer from a lack of effort when it comes to resilience. They’ve invested in plans, training, and infrastructure. But when disruption hits, the response still feels slow, disjointed, or misaligned. That’s because most organizations have resilience components — not a system. Business continuity lives in one place. Crisis management in another. …

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