About a month ago I posted in one blog entry that there are few and far between resources for dealing with grief in a professional world. Today I decided to search the Harvard Business Review to see if any article ever posted on that platform had touched upon the subject.
While 'grief' came up empty (not surprising!), 'death' pulled up one entry. And although the article barely scratches the surface of dealing with death in the workplace (as I had defined it), it does present an interesting viewpoint.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/business/kathy-giusti-sharing-life-lessons-from-a-death-sentence.html
The interviewee, Kathy Giusti, speaks about how a (then-) fatal diagnosis provided her with some lessons she has carried forward into business. Time-management and decisiveness are things that have helped her in her career, and she indicates in this interview that she has pulled these lessons directly from her brush with death. Basically, she learned first hand that life is short, and she couldn't sit around and over-lament her decision-making, or look back and have regrets.
A lesson I needed reminding of today, as I waffle with various minute decisions... time to choose an option and move along. Life is short.
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