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Noticing: Businesses are burning out. Not just employees. Increasingly too exhausted to think about stuff that’s >1y horizon stuff like product roadmaps, business models, sound capital management. 2+ years of relentless full attention on ops firefighting, morale, retention, HR.
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Lots of discourse about employee conditions seem to assume the executive level is somehow immune and pursuing its old agendas with terminator-like relentlessness. Nope. Nobody is immune, so neither are emergent egregore things.
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IQs in the executive suite seem to have dropped like 30 points through the pandemic, horizons have contracted from years to months. Morale is poor.
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The stress has taken a year to trickle up from the frontlines though. This time last year, I had the most inbound ever, asking for support on strategy and stuff. People were energized by the crisis but not yet overwhelmed by it. Now… deadest market fir strategery in 10 years.
Replying to
3/2020: “I’m war-mode CEO, yeah, bring it on! Opportunity in crisis! New normal!” 1/2021: “Lots of challenges, yeah! Lets motivate the troops! Let’s do this reboot thing!” 1/2022: “Another 3 senior engineers quit. All out customers are angry. Why did I want this job again?”
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