RESILIENCE AND RENAISSANCE

INTERDISCIPLINARY LEADERSHIP SERIES

With the whole world on lockdown and quarantine, we are all experiencing some tough learnin' right now.  And we must prepare for a new World, a new normal, and a radically new way of life.  

As is the case with many leaders, anxiety is high. We are also husbands & wives, mothers & fathers doing our best to lead our families, as well as our businesses. Many of us would like to ask for help and some direction, if only to sleep a little better.

This is an opportunity to lead through this crisis. Together.  

Through this interdisciplinary leadership series, the Montana Chamber of Commerce is convening leaders from our community and around the World to explore differing views and common leadership principles that can help us navigate this crisis together, and to accelerate how we provide mentorship, pass on our own values, lessons, failures and successes to our future leaders.  

Leaders are sharing their wisdom in two ways, through lessons of resilience when times are tough and through lessons of increased creativity, referred to here as renaissance. 

RESILIENCE

This is a time for positivity.

We are all navigating daily disruptions to our lives, businesses, and trying to prepare for an uncertain future is unnerving. We will make it through this. Together.

+ How are you adapting?

+ What leadership skills and experiences are helping you through this time?

+ What do you anticipate to be some of the biggest changes affecting your world after the current coronavirus crisis subsides? 

RENAISSANCE

This is also a time for creativity.

Some great individual achievements coincided with crises and isolation. Leveraging today’s technology and interconnectedness, we don't have to be so isolated!

+ What can we do as a business community to maximize this short window that will reset so many of our habits, workplace behaviors, social norms, education of our kids and a much, much different economy?  

+ What will we do with this time to prepare for a better, more resilient world?

In 1665 when Cambridge University closed down as a precaution against the Great Plague, Isaac Newton's private studies at his home in Woolsthorpe gave the World his theories on calculus, optics and the law of gravity. 

Shakespeare wrote “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” and “Antony and Cleopatra,” during a plague-inspired quarantine between early 1605 and late 1606 (most likely timing).

CALLS-TO-ACTION

1. Please listen to the upcoming ~25 minute, one-on-one discussions
2. Send feedback to [email protected] 
3. Share on social media with #MTBIZ
4. Be interviewed to join this collective body of leadership knowledge and principles