Why We Still Suck At Resilience

by Adrian Hornsby

Your organization does all the right things. They practice chaos engineering, GameDays, and load testing. They conduct incident reviews and operational readiness reviews. Yet the same types of incidents keep recurring. This book examines why resilience practices so often fail to build resilience, revealing the organizational dynamics that systematically transform learning mechanisms into compliance theater and what you can do to navigate them consciously.

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Published January 1, 2026

About the author

Adrian Hornsby is a writer of rare diversity. His book ‘The Chinese Dream’, co-authored with Neville Mars, is an award-winning 800-page monster-volume anatomising Chinese urbanisation. His essays and features, ranging from hydroponic tomatoes in the Middle East to all-night girls in forsaken cafés, have appeared in numerous publications, including Hunch, The Architectural Review and Urban China, and he lectures regularly on a host of global and philosophical issues. He has written dozens of short stories and four internationally produced plays. He is currently working on an opera libretto.