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As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we need always to be driving change in our business. To see our business as a stagnant model is to fail.  Change is the one constant we can count on.

If you’re like most people, uncertainty creeps up far too often. It’s a horrible feeling, isn’t it? But it doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t need to live in a state of constant upheaval. Because one thing is for certain; as the old saying goes, the only constant is change. And identifying and addressing change is the only solution for overcoming a mysterious and depressing future.

Science is a “systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.”  Through the structure of the study, different scientists can arrive at different conclusions. This is why scientists come to opposing conclusions on issues such as the treatment of COVID 19, global warming, critical earth population analysis, just to name a few.

Each day roughly 120 million people (as of 2015) walk into a workplace somewhere in the United States. Annually, half of these workers personally witnessed some form of ethical misconduct, according to the Ethics Resource Center (ERC). These are not occasions where employees are privy to the CFO committing fraud or other such significant scandals but are more likely it’s the everyday brand of unethical behavior such as lying to a supervisor or submitting a false expense report.

As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we need to remember that just because something is easy for us doesn’t mean it’s easy for other people. Many leaders forget that, so they often dismiss questions because they already know the answer. That doesn’t mean the question is dumb — it just means it’s not obvious to other people.  So, business leaders need to practice patience and grace on those they work with.

Business resilience is a business-wide term that comprises crisis management and business continuity.  It represents the ability of organizations to rapidly adapt and respond to all types of risks – such as a pandemic, natural disasters, cyber-attacks, supply chain disruptions, among others.

The biggest drain on employee resilience was “managing difficult people or office politics at work.” That was followed closely by stress brought on by overwork and by having to withstand personal criticism.

And these relationships are, by nature, inevitably bound up with emotion, personal history, temperament, and the needs of each person involved.  The more pressured the work environment, the more intense the emotional reactivity will be. Because of all this, there will inevitably be times at work when emotional anger surfaces.

Being a leader is more than just being the person in charge. It’s also about encouraging your employees and setting an excellent example for everyone around you.

If you think about it, every decision and action we take involves some level of hope. We hope we can meet a schedule, that our employees can find a design solution, and that the check shows up in the mail as promised.  We hope our employees don’t get sick, that the review agency sees our application the same way we do, and that the supplier can fulfill your order. While we do everything we can to take the guesswork out of our decisions and actions, some level of hope always remains.