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An article crossed my desktop a few months back about building a strong staff–a “tropophilic” workforce. Usually, tropophilic refers to plants that, like that lone tree on a rocky mountain crag, seem to thrive in the most precarious of places. The objective was to compare the tree’s resiliency to that of our staff’s ability to withstand difficult situations and still thrive.

Such a workforce would demonstrate specific traits and abilities—self-awareness, sustainable positive emotions, and the ability to prioritize among them. The idea is that those who can prosper in uncertainty demonstrate the resilience that serves themselves and the company well in tough times.

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