{"id":269,"date":"2007-04-07T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=269"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:39:12","slug":"are-you-a-hollow-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Hollow Bunny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/bunny.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"bunny.JPG\" width=\"133\" height=\"115\" \/> When I was a kid, I got so excited about the Easter basket, only to find the big chocolate bunny was HOLLOW inside. I just went for the jelly beans instead.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the thing I loathed the most in MY own project work was staff with no crisis skills &#8211;those <em>skills of coping, creative leadership, and positive attitude<\/em> when bad or dumb stuff happens from poor decisions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my practice as a consultant, I see lots of hollow bunnies!<\/p>\n<p>You can have the most skilled team of techno-bunnies but when a crisis happens, they cannot cope. If they were solid bunnies, they would not collapse, or melt down, but rise to the occasion and think, <em>&#8220;WOW, now it is my time to show my stuff<\/em>. Instead, they FREEZE and go into doom and gloom about the project, saying to peers, &#8221; this will kill this project.&#8221; (catastrophe, really?)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THEN, Hollow bunny staff<\/strong> run around reproducing their own anger with others. These symptoms are prevalent:<\/li>\n<li>They see changes, or dumb moves as the <strong>end of the world<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They walk around saying, <strong>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this happened,<\/strong> I They infect others with a non-crisis.<\/li>\n<li>They personalize it and start blaming<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>DO NOT work<\/strong> on their project<\/li>\n<li>Focus on small stuff and petty problems<\/li>\n<li>Tend to handle the crisis in <em>inappropriate childish ways<\/em>, AND<\/li>\n<li>They become a disoriented, isolate and brood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Case study: NO Post Its?????<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consider a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">real<\/span> example. So, the new finance guy decides that the R&amp;D team is using too many Post its\u00ae and doesn&#8217;t order any. He sent out a message saying: &#8220;use regular scraps of paper like I do.&#8221; Of course, he hasn&#8217;t got a <em>clue<\/em> these are used for planning, nor does he ask: he is from retail.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, the team&#8217;s response is Revolt! Led by a couple of hollow bunnies they lead a <em>Sit down: do video games<\/em>&#8212;<em>web surf,<\/em> slow down. Mind you, the leader is away at management training program on motivating staff. No work is done. Anger is rampant. No one knows except R&amp;D. They are self destructing. Yeah, this is a real case.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what should they have done? Solid chocolate bunnies would have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gone to the Staples <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">next door<\/span> and gotten some (&#8220;<em>That was easy\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/em>: &#8220;)<\/li>\n<li>Taken responsibility to meet with the new finance guy and explain WHY they need them face to face.<\/li>\n<li>See the bigger picture of financial issues; offer better suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>Show only short term anxiety:and some Social- <em>Emotional intelligence.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Use scraps of paper until you get some. WORK!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research has shown if a computer goes down, it takes about 5 minutes for people to get back to something else. When <em>hollow bunnies syndrome happens<\/em>, a whole day can be lost . Then there are silly meetings to figure it out. Then they call me.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the point? Even if you are not a Christian who grew up with this rite of Spring of baskets and bunnies, remember the point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When bad things happen, RISE to the occasion and don&#8217;t melt crumble or melt down. It&#8217;s life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Spring. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I got so excited about the Easter basket, only to find the big chocolate bunny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[116,1370,115],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-communications","tag-dysfuncitonal-corporate-culture","tag-leadership","tag-personal-empowerment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13725,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}