To comprehend the risk landscape - current, emerging, strategic, you have to sit with some very complex issues. Sooner or later the concepts stop being abstract and become personal. The best response to combat those feelings is to act. And for risk and resilience practitioners, building your own resilience first isn't optional, it's the work that makes everything else possible.

There is no certainty available right now — and waiting for it is a choice. So is acting without it. The question isn't whether your board can wait for clarity. It's whether your board is ready to govern without it.