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Anti fragile<\/em><\/span> as a term has been vastly enhanced by Nicholas Nassim Taleb<\/em><\/span>‘s seminal book<\/em> <\/span><\/a>of the same name. Where he talks about how things can gain from disorder. Contrary to the popular perception that prevails.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anti-fragility<\/span><\/em> is a concept that has gained popularity in recent years, especially in business. It refers to\u00a0the ability of a system or an individual to not only withstand stress and adversity but thrive under such conditions. Being secure in the status quo is akin to being in a state of impasse and you lose the opportunity to embrace discomfort, dance with our fears and get better at what we can do. It actually is a bottomless pit and going south is what happens most of the time. Because one is so wrapped around the concept of fragile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Antifragility has a singular property of\u00a0allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them\u2014 and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Convexity of antifragility is where the accelerating curve is due to feedback. In his book, Nassim Taleb<\/em><\/span> gives three examples of antifragility: Airlines, Restaurants, <\/em>and <\/span>Silicon Valley<\/em><\/span>. All three of these become stronger every time something goes wrong. Amazon <\/em>and<\/span> Zoom <\/em><\/span>are two examples of antifragile companies that thrived<\/em><\/span> during the pandemic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anti fragile is NOT synonymous with resilient and hence not to be confused. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. The infographic below offers a better explanation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image Source: TUVRheinland | Risktec\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n In a world fraught with uncertainty, opaqueness, poor decision making, human error, risk and all of that, being anti fragile<\/em><\/span> (as individuals or organisations) can be the knight in shining armour.<\/p>\n How often do we the above signage across packages, airport luggage, courier shipments and more. Giving it the kid glove treatment. Molly coddle. Anti fragile as a term has been vastly enhanced by Nicholas Nassim Taleb‘s seminal book of the same name. Where he talks about how things can gain from disorder. … Continue reading “Care to be Anti Fragile?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/af.png\")
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