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Imagine that you were someone who had built a career on new models of leadership, particularly women's leadership, as a force for cultural change and revolution.
That you'd spent a decade supporting diverse talent and training against bias in professional environments.
That you'd spent a decade supporting diverse talent and training against bias in professional environments.
Now imagine that you'd sold a book on women's leadership as a force for revolutionary change at work and in the world.
Along comes coronavirus, which as we all know, changes *everything* related to where and how we work, childcare, education, medicine, productivity, advancement
Along comes coronavirus, which as we all know, changes *everything* related to where and how we work, childcare, education, medicine, productivity, advancement
EVERYTHING.
Imagine the book was, let's call it, 2/3 done when corona hit. And it was good, but conditioned for an environment *before* a pandemic ripped the veil off everything that's wrong with our culture and society in stark terms, with no exit in sight.
Imagine the book was, let's call it, 2/3 done when corona hit. And it was good, but conditioned for an environment *before* a pandemic ripped the veil off everything that's wrong with our culture and society in stark terms, with no exit in sight.
Would you scrap the book and start over? Or do your best to revise and assume a potential "new normal" that includes people working in non-remote and face/face ways at some point in the unknowable future?
And just for the record: it's a good book, a really good book. It's just not quite where we are now, when every inequity is so much more fucking obvious, and when everything is different, and who knows where we'll be in six months yadda yadda existential writer angst. /end
I mean, honestly, one opinion I would trust on this query implicitly would be @theferocity. He's summed up what it means to try to write a book in this environment perfectly.
