From the Helia Library — based on the article A Crisis Reveals Your Values, from our Coffee Chat with Suneet Bhatt.
What’s Inside
01 — Find Your Values in Your People
A one-hour leadership team exercise for naming your best people, naming the traits you see in them, and whittling the list down to the two or three values that would survive a genuinely terrible quarter. Use this when your values feel loose, aspirational, or like something that lives on a wall instead of in your decisions.
02 — What We Cannot Predict
A planner for listing what you’re facing that you can’t predict, then deciding — now, while it’s calm — how you’ll talk about each one and how you’ll address it. Use this when uncertainty is building and you want to communicate about it with certainty instead of getting caught flat-footed.
If You Want Help
Suneet Bhatt has spent more than twenty-five years walking into other people’s worst weeks on purpose. FEMA after Katrina, a 40% revenue loss at Boldr, and a long list of messes in between. He identifies with the Wolf from Pulp Fiction, freely admits he’s terrible at the last 20% of anything, and will tell you that your two-week planning horizon is freaking amazing and mean it. His book, Making Sense of Purpose, is out now. He would also like you to know that Mats Wilander is his favorite tennis player of all time, and that John McEnroe holds the only racket he’s ever seen that truly felt like an extension of a hand.
He’s a good fit if:
- You’re in the middle of something hard and you want someone who has been in the room for a few of these
- Your values exist, and you want them showing up where decisions actually get made
- You’re leading a transformation or a reset and you can feel people starting to drift
- You need triage and stabilization, the zero to 80, and someone else can take it to 100
- You want a thought partner who will tell you the truth rather than the comfortable version
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About Suneet
Suneet Bhatt has spent more than twenty-five years walking into other people’s worst weeks on purpose. FEMA after Katrina, a 40% revenue loss at Boldr, and a long list of messes in between. He identifies with the Wolf from Pulp Fiction, freely admits he’s terrible at the last 20% of anything, and will tell you that your two-week planning horizon is freaking amazing and mean it. His book, Making Sense of Purpose, is out now. He would also like you to know that Mats Wilander is his favorite tennis player of all time, and that John McEnroe holds the only racket he’s ever seen that truly felt like an extension of a hand.
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