“WORKPLACE WISDOM DURING COVID-19”
"WORKPLACE WISDOM DURING COVID-19" By Walter L. Smith III (WS-3) "Awareness is key when combatting the unknown." (WS-3) Planning and prevention is preemptive to the recurring incidence thereof.." (WS-3) Gallup has studied global citizens' worries, fears and confidence during nearly every major crisis of the past eight decades -- including the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor and World War II, the Kennedy assassination, upheavals and riots in the 1960s, 9/11, the 2008 global financial crash, and now the COVID-19 pandemic. One thing is clear. Global citizens look to leadership for a crisis management plan -- and to provide confidence that there is a way forward that they can contribute to. In times of crisis, there are two directions human nature can take us: fear, helplessness and victimization -- or self-actualization and engagement. On the latter, if leaders have a clear way forward , human beings are amazingly resilient...