Where you thought you had a connection with someone before, that connection might now be gone. In working with your peers, not everyone is going to want to work on video, not everyone is going to have perfect internet and not everyone will be flourishing working from their dining room table. You are going to need to establish new connections, new ideas and new patterns if you are going to get through us. No one…
I have played more video games in the past week than I probably have in the past year, easily. I have walked my dog more in the last few weeks than I did in the last month. I have watched more local news about my community, about those around me than I ever have (perhaps since I was a child). You don’t need to be doing something productive 24/7 to “get ahead”, you can do…
It’s getting harder to maintain our focus on what needs to be done vs what is happening all around us. We are being torn in fifteen different directions at once with everything breaking at the same time. Our initial reaction is and always will be to yell out – “Hold on, let me think about this.” – but we don’t have that luxury around us. It reminds me of a release that is going sideways,…
With all that is happening in the world around us, everything is being affected, even our daily discourse and what we write about. Staying still is very hard to do. Our parents have been trying to get us to do it since we were kids – “Sit Down, Stay Still, Don’t Move!” How long did you last? Not long I imagine, I sure didn’t. But now we are having to stay still for a different…
We can’t all be leaders on the same team, it doesn’t work. Everyone would be suggesting their own approach and we would get nowhere. We need skills, we need people who can get things done, others that focus on short-term and long-term goals. We need people who are working with other teams and coordinating efforts and we need people who are on the bench ready to jump in when the moment arises. That’s what a…