The human side of business
When your hands are clenched around it. When losing it feels like a heartbreak. When what you have the power to do, and what will save it, aren’t the same. When you’re so far out to sea, the land has disappeared. It’s normal to be attached to outcomes. If we weren’t, good and great work (they’re different) couldn’t and wouldn’t…
There’s a food pantry near me that serves hot meals to people who might not get one during the week. When I watch the director of the program run and operate the kitchen, the thing that strikes me most – beyond his calm, centered demeanor, truly stunning organizational skills, the ability to anticipate and solve every single challenge that arrises,…
No matter how close or far you find yourself to events of the past days and months, if you aren’t grieving or enraged, you’re at least baffled by how we got here as a country. So many of us are consumed and distracted by our own challenges and burdens, and then reminded – of course – that a bigger crisis…
What happens when we can’t…do what we normally do? When our naturalness doesn’t come through? When we fall down? And maybe can’t quite get up? First, humility. The reminder of your humanity descends like a drumbeat in your chest. Then, a short (or long) spiral of despair. Why this? Why now? Why in front of him / her / them? And finally – bargaining….
