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The fires in the Los Angeles area over the last couple of weeks have been absolutely devastating.
As a leader, one of your roles is to address the impact of various disasters for your organization. So you create backup plans, for computers, equipment, and people. It’s not fun, but necessary to keep things humming as best you can.
But the deeper impact is what happens inside your employees.
Read the rest of this entry »There are times when we have to explore the possible futures.
Like it or not, we have to ponder both the good and the bad. Today I’ll look at the downside, and next week at the upside.
Some folks are naturally pessimistic. I’ve tried to focus on optimism, but there are times I have to try to balance – especially when making big decisions.
Read the rest of this entry »It’s fire season in Colorado, which gets me thinking about conversations I’ve had with my business clients.
I know that seems like a little bit of a stretch, but let’s explore for a moment.
When disaster happens, our natural instinct is to run away. Get as far away from the danger as fast as possible. With that distance, we’ll have a bit of safety to examine the situation and figure out what to do next.
Read the rest of this entry »Sometimes you just gotta reboot.
This is often your first step in fixing a problem. The computer’s acting weird? Reboot. Your phone stopped working right? Reboot.
But that’s darned hard to do with an organization. What’s the difference?
Read the rest of this entry »Recently we had some devastating fires whip through some small towns between Boulder and Denver, Colorado. Nothing could be done with the high winds we had that day, and a thousand families lost everything they own.
And yet, we are grateful for the limited loss of life. And millions of dollars were contributed by the community within a couple of days to help these folks get through the toughest times of their lives.
What do we learn for our businesses?
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here are days when it all feels hopeless.
I get that; it happens to all of us. The question is: how do you know when to pull the plug entirely, rather than just suck it up?
Here’s where you want to start:
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