FEAR BEING AFRAID

"Excessive fear is always powerless."

Aeschylus, 5th century BC Greek tragedian

Fear can protect assuming what we fear warranted being afraid of in the first place.

Often that isn't the case.

Don't deny or give into what you fear.

Create your plan to eliminate the threat and more often than not you will. 

Stressed Out!

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."

Natalie Goldberg
Author

Good thought.

Now, how to stay as stress free as possible? That's the hard part.

How do you handle stress? How do you determine what is and is not worth worrying about?

Staff Reduction: How Do You Know When You've Gone Too Far?

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Mortimer Caplin
Attorney

This sounds like something senior management might have said to employees they didn't lay off in the last year or so.

"Be happy you've still got a job. You can do more than you think."

To a degree that is so; there was fat in a lot of organizations, but at some point that is no longer true. Many cuts have been to the bone.

When it comes to staff reductions, how do you know when enough is actually too much?