What are we waiting for?
As the financial crisis gathers like a tempest around us, I am struck by what people are doing, and not doing.
When we receive bad news, we go through stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. And we go through the stages at different speeds. We do need to be patient. I need to be patient.
What distinguishes
- people who might get moving if someone bellowed “all hands on deck” in their ear
- those people who are already on deck and who got there immediately it was obvious we were in trouble
- and the people still sitting below in the mess room clutching a cup-of-tea?
This seems to be the question of our time.
Are you waiting for someone to tell you what to do? Or have you got to work already?
My task this week: initiative
I don’t want to feel impatient, or worse express impatience, with people I work with.
So I’ve set my task this week to review the work of German psychologist, Mike Frese, who writes on initiative.
What readies us to take action and to remain effective even when the world is swirling and crashing around us?
Come with me!
I am going to read over Mike’s work and explain it during the week. I’d be interested to know of instances of action and inaction that puzzle you. And whether Mike’s work, or my my explanation of Mike’s work, helps you solve the puzzle!
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