Winning After Losing: Building Resilient Teams

Individuals, teams, and organizations must become more resilient in today's complex world, and each one will experience failure at some point. Successful individuals, teams, and organizations bounce back. Winning After Losing, Building Resilient Teams offers a collection of lessons on leadership and resilience, of winning teams. I am writing this book as a retired U.S. Army three-star General, and as the former Chief Operating Officer of a public biotechnology company. Each leadership role taught me valuable lessons, whether serving with tactical units, at the corporate level in The Pentagon, or in seemingly impossible global missions. After transitioning into the business environment, many of these lessons of leadership and teamwork continued to make a significant positive impact. All businesses experience failure at some point in their growth, and they can bounce back through great leadership and teamwork. Whether in the military, government, or business, it is possible to build winning resilient teams.

Resilience is the capacity to recover. It is the effort expended to bend but not break despite trauma, tragedy, adversity, or crisis. Ultimately resilience is adapting based on lessons learned, to bounce back stronger than before. If you like winning, learn as much as possible from the experience of losing...that is what resilient teams do so well. Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick

Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick served over 38 years in the U.S. Army. His assignments took him from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to the Former East German Border during the Cold War, to Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, locations throughout the United States including multiple assignments in the Pentagon. He led the National Military Command Center during the tragic events of 9-11 where he worked with national leaders to bring calm to the nation. He helped the nation recover after Hurricane Sandy as the 53rd Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Though an engineer, he led the Army's recruiting efforts after it failed to achieve its annual goals, and then became the Director of Army Personnel. He taught Mechanical Engineering at West Point and has a master's degree in both Civil and Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD. in Systems Engineering from George Washington University. He was the Chief Operating Officer of a public company focused on biotechnology, serves on public and private company boards, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Forbes Contributor and frequent speaker to audiences in academia, government, and business.