What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
“I’m excited to take one in the face,” the Chief Strategy Officer said.
His New Years Resolution? To get into a fistfight. In the office.
WTF?
The Wall Street Journal cites a disturbing thread in the “back to office” conversation: Leaders and managers who want to dial up the heat.
More demands, tighter deadlines, greater intensity.
Rewarding face time, ambition and drive at the expense of sanity, space and balance.
Seriously?
Have we learned nothing?
Many leaders came out of the pandemic with an understanding that the hustle culture was broken. That the way most organizations worked didn’t really work. That there was a better way, a more sustainable way.
The Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and the challenges of recruiting and retaining really good talent seemed to punctuate these hard-learned lessons.
But then inflation spiked and recession loomed; layoffs ensured.
Some in leadership saw this as an opportunity to return to the good old days.
Don’t get sucked back in.
You are the co-creator of this gift that is your life.
You get to create the work and the life that brings you joy.
Plan well this “one wild and precious life.”
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