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"The Five Stages of Grief" from the Kubler-Ross Model seems to apply. 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance The detail most get con
by Joel_Mckay 4y ago
"The Five Stages of Grief" from the Kubler-Ross Model seems to apply.
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
The detail most get confused with is these stages occur in no particular order.
Personally, I would likely jump from 2 to 3, then found a competing nonprofit firm with 9k people in the same situation, The real danger with talent layoffs is people wrongly assume every employee is replaceable, and will quietly go away without financial consequences. ;)
Good luck out there, and remember that the only difference between bums in suits and most CEOs is money (don't get upset, we all know this is true). =)
- BurningFrog 4y agoGuess I'll be the jerk who tells you the Kubler-Ross Model doesn't have much empirical evidence: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/its-time-let-five-stages-grief-die https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/its-time-le... That said, it at least provides a vocabulary for talking about loss.
- Joel_Mckay 4y ago"empirical evidence" would likely require a breach of research ethics, but I suppose you could randomly borrow your neighbors cats to observe owner behaviors. Just kidding, as being a "jerk" with facts is not a character flaw from my perspective. lol =)
- BurningFrog 4y agoThis is a good example of Acceptance!
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoOh... snap! =)
- Smoosh 4y agoOr is it denial?
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoStrategic ambiguity, nicely spotted =)
- notUrsMine 4y agoI read that book and came away feeling underwhelmed. She went into many patient interviews with her model in mind; did she instigate patient behavior through questions? The book was often vague when it came to her interview methodology, and favored development of patient story, IMO to latch onto reader’s sympathy, while offering little detail of the authors methods. From the authors reference frame the patients appeared to linearly accept their fate. If we randomly time traveled to their room and interviewed them which state would we encounter? Is the progress static regardless of environmental inputs or variable? I have a hard time trusting past truth these days; editors and publishers want to sell books. There’s a huge labor market dedicated to PR and optics, tailored messaging. Sensibilities of the past were much more accepting that whatever made it on store shelves was absolutely correct and not a tailored product placement.
- Joel_Mckay 4y agoVerifiable facts and accountability are often more important than individual interpretations of a singular theory of "truth". https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephan... If one is cooking their data, it is only slightly worse than creating entire fake journals to publish self-serving content for political arguments (true story). I hold particular disdain for the chaos faction after taking 20 minutes to read nonsense: https://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-significant-2/ https://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-signifi... The internet simply allowed amateurs to participate in these scams. =)
- samtho 4y agoThe problem with theses is that this list was compiled from aggregated observations but individuals can go through any number or all in all different orders. Instead, it’s used as a prescriptive tool to help track where someone is in the grieving process, which is misguided.