The Sandman from the spider-man Movie

In Times of Great Change, Grip Loosely

This Thursday Thought holds lessons for us in a business and personal context. To navigate change, we must grip our transient advantages loosely. Today, as we close out the Covid-19 pandemic under the threat of war, uncertainty is a certain ingredient of our life experience. We must be make peace with uncertainty and let go of control. The only control we can exercise is over our preparation, in doing so we prepare our response to unavoidable disorder and chaos.

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The Rise (and Fall) of The Deciduous Organisation

Financial measurement alone can suggest an organization is well, while the underlying culture is often sick (as well as many of those people working there). When it comes to deciduous organizations, they pay no attention to the devastating impact on families, the psychological impact on individuals and society when they chose profits over people. One caveat is that not all companies have behaved in this way, some organizations – big and small – displayed heroic acts of loyalty to their people during seasonal stress, but they are in the minority. Is it any wonder that employees are less loyal today than they have been decades ago?

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