Hot Topic Friday: March 27

Happy Friday! Here are my March 27 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership.

Hot Topic 1: What if it’s GRIEF We’re Feeling?

What It’s About: David Kessler, a renowned expert on grief, shares his thoughts on why it’s important to acknowledge this feeling, how to manage it, and how he believes we will find meaning in it. Our daughter Jillian was wide awake at 3:00 a.m. the other night, her mind churning with unease regarding all aspects surrounding this crisis. She found some insight and comfort in this HBR article, and shared it with me. As I’ve since posted it, colleagues and family have unanimously responded with, “nailed it.” Please read and share.

Why It’s Important: Often when we can recognize a feeling or emotion, it gives us the ability to better cope or manage it. Frankly, grief is not how I would have described all the anxiety I’ve been struggling with recently. However, as this superb article points out: “It’s absurd to think we shouldn’t feel grief right now. Let yourself feel the grief and keep going.”

One Millennial Response: There’s certainly a lack of control, which doesn’t help any situation. The more we know about what exactly we’re feeling and how to drive through it, the better we’ll move on to what we talk about in Hot Topic 2.

Hot Topic 2: The Journey to the Next Normal.

Source: McKinsey & Company.

What It’s About: What should we do next? That’s the simple but very daunting question I’m asking myself and our leadership team. Thoughtful leaders everywhere are giving careful consideration to framing this up in a way that will create the best possible outcome. This McKinsey article provides a framework to help us navigate. The authors advise a call to action across five stages, leading from the crisis to the next normal: Resolve, Resilience, Return, Reimagination, and Reform.

Why It’s Important: Determining the scale, pace, and depth of action required along with making the right decisions is acutely challenging every leadership team, and all of us individually. Frankly, the immediate response to the crises is the easiest of the hard stuff. Almost every organization I’ve been with is at their best in emergency environments. It’s how we come out the other side that will really define the effectiveness of our leadership. The same 5R framework McKinsey outlines can apply to our individual lives as well. What a wonderful self-learning opportunity.

One Millennial Response: Speaking of a next normal, and getting there. How much crisis talk from us is helpful right now to you, as readers? Please let us know if this content is useful, or if you’d like us to lead the way to the “next normal” by focusing on Hot Topics that move past this subject matter? We’d love to hear what you think.

My Weekly Wine Recommendation.

[Ed. Note: It doesn’t look like Vivino will be shipping for a while. Instead, let’s go and support our local wine shops and small businesses/restaurants for the time being.]

And finally! Here’s Cecil’s Bleat of the Week!

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Happy Friday! Here are my March 27 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership.

Hot Topic 1: What if it’s GRIEF We’re Feeling?

Hot Topic 2: The Journey to the Next Normal.

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