Leadership during times of crisis? We'll do it live!
Episode 49 · April 9th, 2020 · 54 mins 23 secs
About this Episode
In this episode, Kendall and rachel talk about:
- CW: we're probably going to swear more than usual
- The tendency of technical people to try to solve every problem with technology
- rachel's perilous journey home
- Kendall's cabin fever
- The uncertainty of the future, lack of faith in (US) leadership
- Whether it's productive to vent about the above
- Cutting yourself some slack
- Directionality of venting/support structures
- Forecasting vs planning
- Having compassion for your leadership
- Planning for multiple potential futures
- Parallels to the 2000-era dot-com bust
- Random prison pet training detour
- Providing support for emotionally-strapped folk
- How much authoritarianism is appropriate when lives are at stake?
- The role of trust in authority
- Self-soothing techniques from your hosts:
- rachel: cocktails, Dungeons & Dragons, Murdoch Mysteries
- Kendall: Staying in With Emily & Kumail podcast, watching and reading things that happen on beaches, lots of exercise
- Zoom meetings are great until they're not
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3