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Leaders, You Missed Obvious Opportunities During This Crap Year
And all roads lead from (and back to) being human
We aren’t gifted many things during a global health crisis, and it’s hard to find silver linings when billions of us are touched by the same terrible experience.
These days, every inch of our lives feels to be determined, at best. And though we appeared to be nearing a return to some normalcy, that now seems further from our reach once again.
At work — that place where we spend so much of our lives — there can be saving graces. But it requires a lot of empathy, and we’ve largely been missing the mark.
Everyone is Depleted
Nataly Kogan (founder of Happier) recently joined Erica Keswin’s podcast, Left to Our Own Devices. On it, she affirms, “[E]veryone is coming into this depleted. We are not at our best in terms of our energy and focus, because we have just gone through something exhausting — and it’s not over.”
One of my peeves over the past 530+ days has been the tentative nature of everything. Especially with work, most decisions — the return to office, the ability to gather in-person meetings, how we onboard new employees — have been conditional. It feels like we take some numeration of steps forward, followed by…
