Resiliency and Thriveability

I heard a term that I believe should be a wonderful entry in the resiliency lexicon -- Thriveability. I heard it on Larry Glover's site www.wildresiliency.com. Since then, I have been researching the term online and have become dangerously familiar with the various meanings and approaches taken to it. They vary from approaches of positive psychology of how people continue to grow and learn even in diversity, to approaches to describe next evolution in dealing with the ecologies, or approaches to elevate individuals and communities past mere surviving. I will explore it more and am very interested in the readers perspectives. The term is not pervasive in the United States and I only found less than 2,000 hits in a Google search.

My world is focused on business resiliency. I very much apprectiate the part of the resiliency discpline that deals with communities, regions, the ecology, and the universe. I think the concept of Thriveability has some great explanatory value in describing what we mean with resiliency whichever level of resiliency or area upon which we are focused. This term will make it into many one-liners for me, such as:

"Business Continuity Planning, risk management, and security are about survivability...where resiliency is really about thriveability!"

Adding to that statement will be: "You can't thrive if you can't survive, so BCP, risk management, security and such are critically important."

I apologize in advance to the members of the Thriveability community if I am hijacking the term for a narrower meaning than was intended or has been customary. But I think we can make it even more visible going forward.

Darryl Moody
Resilient Corporation