{"id":167,"date":"2020-03-23T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=167"},"modified":"2020-03-23T19:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:10:49","slug":"leadership-covid-19-and-ms-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/23\/leadership-covid-19-and-ms-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership, COVID-19 and Ms. Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leader who says this to an employee either is very much afraid or lacks even a scintilla of empathy.\u00a0In either case, the statement (or response) is so bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, it is remarkably disrespectful.\u00a0<\/strong>Don\u2019t tell people how to feel!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, if employees listen to you, they may become ill (or worse).\u00a0<\/strong>Fear is healthy now\u2014it may keep us and those we care about safe as we social distance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third, the comment undermines whatever credibility the leader may have.<\/strong>\u00a0I cannot think of a worse time to project dangerous bravado.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanasegal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Segal<\/a>, please<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shrm.org\/blog\/leadership-covid-19-and-ms-kennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> visit <em>The<\/em> <em>SHRMBlog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid.\u201d The leader who says this to an employee either is very much afraid or lacks even a scintilla of empathy.\u00a0In either case, the statement (or response) is so bad. First, it is remarkably disrespectful.\u00a0Don\u2019t tell people how to feel! Second, if employees listen to you, they may become ill (or worse).\u00a0Fear is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/23\/leadership-covid-19-and-ms-kennedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leadership, COVID-19 and Ms. Kennedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,191],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-law","tag-leadership"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}