This is the first of an intended series of weekly updates of my own efforts to figure out what to do in these extraordinary times.
I start with the actions I decided to take and explain the orientations and observations that led to my choosing those actions.
My goal is to show the method at work while supporting your work by sharing what I have found and am thinking.
Actions
- Share my process and tools
- Leading in a Crisis blog post on my methods
- Crisis leadership wisdom jigs – to clarify your cash situation and recovery choices.
- Host leaders in conversation
- Local recovery
- Humane Leadership Open Forums
- Share my process with you via these posts.
- Is this helpful? Please let me know here.
- Make new offers
- Humane Leadership book (pre-order available soon)
- Pro bono advisory with donation option
- Community leadership in a crisis trainings – reach out if you are interested
- Look for opportunities for leadership within arm’s reach
These Actions are based on my,
Orientation
Personal
- Avoid personal financial challenges
- Earn influence by
- Connecting with people in the community
- Discovering their needs and offering to help
- Being visible by aligning with citizens, City, Chamber of Commerce, businesses, landlords.
National
- Federal resources PPP
- Criteria for reopening America
- Testing plans – left to the states
State
Ashland and Southern Oregon
- City of Ashland news – no publicized cuts
- Ashland Community Recovery project humane
This Orientation is based on my,
Observations
Public Health
- Virus understanding still emerging
- Curves
- Hotspots
- Time to release from social distancing
- Earlier deaths in California
- Local cases OHA
- Local medical professionals in my network – not overwhelmed
- Recovery and occurrence
- Wuhan
- Early opening Georgia Florida
- Personal thought experiments on my own desire to reduce social distancing
- Testing capacity
Economic health
- Demand observations
- Walking in town
- My own personal purchasing
- Talk with staff and other customers as I am grocery shopping
- Talk with restaurant workers who are offering take out
- PPP funding and logistics – inequity, local banks were efficient
- Senate not supporting states and cities
- Damage – dominoes starting to fall –
- Opportunistic actions
- Externalities –
- Black cats – Iran, Russia, Venezuela , North Korea
- Black swans (none yet) – other new viruses
- Climate change weather events
- City of Ashland – actions taken and to be taken
- Editorial 1 – call by Moran [Article removed by host]
- Editorial 2 – response by council – article removed
- Reading The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth
- Watching
- Brookings Institution webinars
- Hedge fund leaders – especially Ray Dalio
- Executive interviews – e.g. Bloomberg
About The Methodology
Leading in a crisis post explores this methodology (OODA loops) in detail
Other Support
- Advisory on making difficult strategic decisions
- Training in leading in a crisis
- Humane Leadership book