Lyzbeth Bertoli

“Companies can learn a lot from biological systems. The human immune system for example is adaptive, redundant, diverse, modular, data-driven and network collaborative. A company that desires not just short term profit but also long term resilience should apply these features of the human immune system to it's business models and company structure.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Insurance is important in business. It just makes sense that we share risk for low probability high impact events.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Business leaders a hundred years ago thought about business with a very mechanical way of thinking. But today and going forward, business leaders need to think about business with a biological and energetic way of thinking; thinking of business in terms of living systems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“In terms of business resilience, it's important to have the ability to repurpose inputs and redirect outputs. It's important to have a good amount of flexibility designed into the businesses operating systems. When a business can answer the if this then that question over and over again with different fill in the blanks, it's got resilience.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr