In the board room.

The word “resilience” comes from the Latin word salire, which means to spring up, and the word resilire, which means to spring back. Resilience is defi ned as the ability to spring back or recover from a physical, emotional, fi nancial, or social challenge. If you are resilient, you are better able to respond to the changes and challenges that you encounter, and adapt and adjust to get through them. Individuals who are resilient can move beyond the challenge and emerge stronger. Similar to the philosophy of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” resilience is critical to recovery — or to dying successfully. A successful death has been described as the feeling that our life has been well lived, that we have completed what we wanted to do during the time given.