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Long-lived companies show that resilience comes not from individual toughness, but from the strength of the systems around us.
These are firms that have survived recessions, world wars, colonial collapses, and technological revolutions. The oldest of them, a Japanese construction company called Kongō Gumi, was founded in the year 578 A.D. That’s not a typo. They’ve been in business for over 1,400 years.
When you study these organizations, you realize that our modern definition of resilience is dangerously incomplete. We treat resilience as a character trait. But in the real world, over long horizons, resilience behaves much more like the defining property of an ecosystem.
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