Leading Thoughts for April 15, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, modify reckoning, and move life-times. Now are two sentiments for the strange brain to get involved in 😛 TAGEND

Yale sociologist and physician Nicholas Christakis reflects on what we are likely to see as we move beyond the COVID-1 9 pandemic age 😛 TAGEND

“If history is a guide, it seems likely that intake will come back with a vengeance. Stages of plague-driven austerity have often been followed by periods of liberal spending. If the Roaring Twenties following the 1918 pandemic are a guide, the increased religiosity and reflection of the immediate and medium sized pandemic intervals could give way to increased expressions of risk-taking, intemperance, or joie de vivre in the post-pandemic period. The enormous plea of municipalities will be apparent once again. People will relentlessly aim opportunities for social mixing on a wider scale in sport contests, concerts, and political rallyings. And after a serious epidemic, parties often feel is not merely a restored smell of purpose but a replaced impression of possibility.”

Source: Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

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Authors Robert Galford and Anne Drapeau on the correlation between confidence and self-knowledge 😛 TAGEND

“Being a trusted governor is about knowing yourself. Knowing your concentrations, your drawbacks, what gives you pleasure, what harass the blaze out of you. Knowing why you go to work, why you react as you do under pressure, what scares you, and what builds you proud. The genuine trusted leaders we know all have one thing in common, if nothing else: they know themselves is a good one. Self-knowledge is fundamental to be a rusted supervisor for a simple reason: rely is built on honesty.”

Source: The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company

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