Prarthana Kumar, Author at Harvard Business Publishing https://www.harvardbusiness.org/author/prarthanakumar/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:45:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 What’s in Your Toolbox? Time to Add Four Resilience-Building Tools https://www.harvardbusiness.org/whats-in-your-toolbox-time-to-add-four-resilience-building-tools/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:55:09 +0000 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=315267 In response to the pandemic—which continues to test our capacity for resilience—we recently hosted a webinar, Resilience in a Period of Loss, Grief, & Anxiety. At this event, Harvard Business School Professor Joshua Margolis discussed the acute need for leaders to develop this important capability. (You’ll find our brief overview of the webinar here.) He then offered four valuable tools for putting leaders on the path to resilience. Four Tools to Help Interrupt the Adversity Reflex and Build Personal Resilience While the tools that Professor Margolis outlined are simple and straightforward, he cautions that these activities may not seem all […]

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]]> Building Resilience in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Anxiety https://www.harvardbusiness.org/building-resilience-in-a-time-of-loss-grief-and-anxiety/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:52:20 +0000 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=315192 More than a year after we first began hearing news of Covid, the pandemic continues to factor into both our personal and professional lives. Many of us have been working from home, managing our teams without being able to drop by for a small informal chat, and onboarding new team members without being able to take them out for a welcome lunch. Many of us have been schooling our children from home, too—and trying to make up for their loss of playtime with friends. We’ve been more worried than ever about the health of our family and friends, and coping […]

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