Each week you'll find questions to make you ponder, quick techniques to help you think more powerfully, or new ideas from your fellow innovative thinkers around the world. To quickly sign up, click here. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
Layoffs spread a fear virus that can leave an entire organization weakened and open to attack.
These people are now living in and acting from fear. Plus their informal network for getting work done is shredded. Now let's assume that each of the 300,000 traumatized employees spends several hours talking about layoffs and their fears to just 10 co-workers. Now there are 3 million fear-based employees doing their best to hunker down and avoid risk and management scrutiny. Layoff Humor Sometimes when stupidity runs rampant, the only thing we can do is look for the humor in the situation.