PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michelle A Barton
AU  - Marlys Christianson
AU  - Christopher G Myers
AU  - Kathleen Sutcliffe
TI  - Resilience in action: leading for resilience in response to COVID-19
AID  - 10.1136/leader-2020-000260
DP  - 2020 May 26
TA  - BMJ Leader
PG  - leader-2020-000260
4099  - http://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/27/leader-2020-000260.short
4100  - http://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/27/leader-2020-000260.full
AB  - Resilience matters now more than ever in healthcare, with the COVID-19 pandemic putting healthcare providers and systems under unprecedented strain. In popular culture and everyday conversation, resilience is often framed as an individual character trait where some people are better able to cope with and bounce back from adversity than others. Research in the management literature highlights that resilience is more complicated than that – it’s not just something you have, it’s something you do. Drawing on research on managing unexpected events, coordinating under challenging conditions, and learning in teams, we distill some counter-intuitive findings about resilience into actionable lessons for healthcare leaders.