The other day, I attended a webinar that blew my mind. Don't ask me what the webinar was - I don't remember, something about imagining the future, perhaps the future of work, my mind was so blown that I didn't retain anything from the webinar itself. Luckily I jotted down a few notes while I …
With the current situation, the volume of office workers who are working from home has increased dramatically. Oh, not all office workers are WFH now - I know plenty who are collecting unemployment, and my heart goes out to them. Unemployment, when you have worked your whole life and are unemployed by circumstances outside your …
First, a non-apology: I am not sorry that the blog took a little detour for the last few weeks. That story had been buzzing around inside me getting louder and louder and I had to get it out before it made me nuts. If you're still following, thank you for putting up with the detour. …
I’ve been thinking lately about the Jared Diamond book that I read last year, Upheaval. In this book, he analyzes the resilience of several nations in the face of crisis, through a lens based on characteristics that describe how people respond to personal crisis. Here is the lens he came up with: National consensus that …
Continue reading Off the Shelf: Using “Upheaval” to Assess the C19 Crisis
Yesterday was a little stressful. One of my colleagues coughed through a whole meeting. Another laughed as he shared that he had developed ansomia, the inability to smell or taste anything. But the worst thing that happened all day was that a meeting was cancelled and I suddenly had an empty hour on my calendar. …
