Letter from the Founder
Welcome to the fifty-eighth issue of CEE News!
I woke up this morning with a knot in my stomach. I’m usually pretty good at compartmentalizing things that I cannot control and what is within my power to manage.
But, at 4:05 a.m., images were looping in my head of George Floyd begging for his life on Monday and the Minneapolis police station in flames three nights later. Images that show the worst of what can happen when we lack the kind of leadership that helps us navigate the path between chaos and control. Before sitting down to write this dispatch, I picked up where I’d left off in Leadership in Turbulent Times, the book I’ve been reading these days to find leadership inspiration and historical perspective. In the book, author Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson.
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Business In Focus
A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
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Brian Halligan was vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard in 2006, weighing the pros and cons of launching Hubspot. “One day,” according to Halligan, “I’m looking at a book of cartoons from The New Yorker, and the first cartoon I open to shows this dog who’s just sitting at a computer on the Internet. A second dog is looking over his shoulder, like, what the heck are you doing on the Internet? And the dog on the Internet looks at the other guy and says, ‘You know, the great thing about the Internet is nobody knows you’re a dog.’”
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Sticky Solutions
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I manage a team of 35 people in the construction industry in California. For the first two months of the Covid-19 crisis, we rallied. Everyone was given access to our system through secure laptops. We developed protocols to manage essential customer needs safely. Our team meetings shifted to an online platform to keep the lines of communication open. Last week, though, I sensed a decrease in the energy of my team. As we move into a phased re-opening, what can I do to make sure my team has the energy they need to pivot again without losing momentum?
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