Fortitude

Unlocking the Secrets of Inner Strength

Find out more about Fortitude on its website.

 

How did the topic of resilience become politicised victim-blaming? How did it this lead to the real origins of resilience becoming obscured?

 

What are secrets of inner strength? In a page-turning read, Fortitude sets out to explore the mistakes we make talking about resilience and explains how any of us can be stronger in our lives.

 

If you like this, you may like my previous book, The Joy of Work.

"A much needed book that unfolds the surprising secrets of resilience"
— Nadiya Hussain
"This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must-read."
— Steven Bartlett
"A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, human, and effective approach to working and thriving in a post-pandemic world"
— Oliver Burkeman, author of 4000 Weeks
"Entertaining. Engaging. Educating. Three words that sum up this cracking read, which offers a timely – and much needed - challenge to the traditional definition on resilience".
— Professor Damian Hughes, host of the High Performance Podcast
'A thought provoking exploration of what it takes to get through tough times and a compelling endorsement of the power of others to hold us up’
— Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect
"Surprisingly and challenging. Fortitude encouraged me to re-think not only my work but how I live my life"
— Sarah Ellis - Author of The Squiggly Career

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'Whatever you do now, frame it as an experiment' The Drum

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About Bruce

Bruce Daisley is one of the UK’s most influential voices on fixing work, published in the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. His first book was a Sunday Times number 1 bestseller, and is now translated into 18 international editions. His second book, Fortitude, was  described as ‘the best business book of 2022’ by the Financial Times.
Previously he spent over a decade running Twitter and YouTube (the latter at Google) for Europe, leaving Twitter as its most senior leader outside of the US.