This rock may have balanced for centuries near the Mobius Arch on the road to Whitney Portal in the Eastern Sierra. When we stopped to take a quick hike, I had to laugh and snap a photo. It struck me as a picture of the fragile balance most leaders are perched in.
Between keeping up with AI, and the new Cyber Security issues it raises, plus the jobs being lost, and the electricity it will demand, and the economic fallout of the war in Iran, and the potential fallout from gerrymandering and rule by executive order – staying agile and balanced is all we can control.
How much does the price/availability of oil and oil products affect your business?
Do predictions of “profitless prosperity” make you shiver?
What about Anthropic’s Mythos?*
Although you can’t ignore these issues, it is critical to keep coming back to the same ethos: focus on the basics. Do those activities that must be done no matter what is happening outside. Pay attention to sales, costs, your people and invest in technology and process improvement. These same old reps will make your muscles bigger and your company more resilient.
What is restorative for you and your team? If you are stressed, what is your team going through with the cost of everything going up? Maybe a listening tour is on order. What if every team member was asked to identify one thing that really bugs them that they would like to see fixed? And fix as many as you can. That is something that you can in fact control.
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