Are You a Renaissance Leader?

Issue 166, June 27, 2024

Just when you thought leaders have been disintermediated by demanding younger employees who want a seat at their bosses’ tables, these leaders are more important than ever. So much has been reported and written about working to live, life/work balance, and the quality-of-life fulfillment of remote work that managers and their roles have been shoved to the side.

But in truth, leaders have their work cut out for them.

The Rise of Loneliness and Disengagement

Leaders need to call on new skills when the workforce, as reported by a new Gallup poll, is not alright: “62% of global employees are not engaged at work, another 15% are actively disengaged, only 34% of workers would describe themselves as thriving, and around 20% of employees describe themselves as lonely — plus those numbers get even worse for younger workers (Fortune).

Perhaps as we wrote last week, the lack of gratitude and curation of trust only deepens disengagement.

And on the state of loneliness, the U.S.…