by GCO | Apr 16, 2020 | leadership & management
Until recently, trauma was believed to be one of the prevalent ways our lives got screwed up and created serious mental health issues. More recently, however, psychology has come to terms with the fact that trauma is very common. Trauma, obstacles and adversity are...
by GCO | Apr 16, 2020 | leadership & management
An advertising executive presents a marketing plan via Zoom to her boss and colleagues, hoping her kids are still watching Frozen on Netflix. A couple argues over bandwidth requirements for their dueling videoconferences, while their teenager searches for protective...
by GCO | Apr 16, 2020 | leadership & management
Management teams and their boards are juggling a wide array of concerns right now, from the health of their workforces to volatile equity markets to shuttered debt markets. Furthermore, many economists and policy makers have slashed GDP forecasts and now portend a...
by GCO | Apr 16, 2020 | leadership & management
It goes without saying that the pandemic sucks. But—suckiness notwithstanding—what if the pandemic is also super-charging your brain? In February of 1665, two people in the St. Giles district of London suspiciously fell ill. Days later, they both perished. In April,...
by GCO | Apr 16, 2020 | leadership & management
During a crisis, leaders tend to hyperfocus on managing the threat and neglect long-range thinking. That’s a mistake because vision is critical both for evaluating short-term decisions and for creating a better future. The coronavirus pandemic has been a major...
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