Build a nimble culture that cultivates leaders who acknowledge and embrace ambiguity, knowing that change is necessary, fluid, and often messy. In charting the way forward, nimble leaders recognize that information is often incomplete and that change involves risk, so some failure will always be part of the calculus but critical learning, insight, and growth will also be the result of failure.
Tag: COVID-19
Posted inARTS & CULTURE
All-Inclusive LGBTQ+ Bars and Clubs Face New Challenges Amid Coronavirus
Queer businesses in Orange County have faced adversity before. But now, like other businesses, their current battle is against the coronavirus as they are stuck in a limbo with no end point.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE
Panoringan: How Are OC Restaurants Adapting To Their New COVID-19 Reality?
Just over a month ago most jobs shifted to work from home, but jobs in the restaurant industry are considered an essential service.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Barfield: Let’s Keep Public Servants Working to Keep Our Communities Safe
Public sector workers have been subjected to risks every day since the start of the crisis. First responders, public health nurses, social workers, mental health workers and many others have remained on the job. Community safety, stopping child abuse, and protecting the local environment cannot telecommute, and neither do these workers.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Cho: Fullerton Acts, In Spite of Its Leadership
Voters will do well to remember how their local leaders responded to this pandemic: did their leaders do what they could, when it needed to be done, or did they wait for someone else to take charge?
Posted inCountywide
Losses Mount Quickly for Orange County Arts Groups
The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a staggering blow to Orange County’s arts community. According to a report published this week by Arts Orange County, local arts organizations have suffered losses of $16 million since the start of the crisis.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Umberg: Rise Against Racism and Hate During the COVID-19 Crisis
There has been a sharp increase in incidents related to anti-Asian hate that reflect the hostile environment that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders face during the COVID-19 pandemic. These attacks are an affront to the ideals which we, as Americans, fight to protect. Moreover, our great nation is at its best when we unite and live out our commitment to liberty and justice for all.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Warner: An Open Letter to the Orange County Board of Supervisors
We believe it is possible to protect the health and safety of our communities without bankrupting them as well. If we act now and put together a plan to restart the OC economy as well as minimize health risks, then businesses can begin the process of contacting vendors, employees, customers and preparing to smoothly transition and reopen.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Clayton-Tarvin and Briscoe: Feckless OC Supervisors Expose Essential Workers to COVID19
Inaction by the Orange County Board of Supervisors could result in infection, sickness, and death from COVID-19 for many county residents including innocent children. The lack of action by the OC Supervisors is so serious, we believe, that cities like Irvine, Costa Mesa, Seal Beach, and Buena Park have had to take matters into their own hands, passing ordinances to mandate face coverings like masks for essential workers. While we wait like cattle for herd immunity to develop, we must have a strategy to re-emerge. Part of a safety plan should be, we believe, a requirement for face coverings.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Kriz: Twenty Three People Died “Without Fixed Abode” in OC in March 2020
Twenty three people died “without fixed abode” in OC in March 2020, with a clear uptick in deaths as the COVID-19 crisis arrived. Since then, OC has predictably lagged behind other counties in moving its homeless population off of the streets. Once again, we are faced with the question: Do we actually prefer to keep our poorest people sleeping on our streets, rather than do what is necessary to get them off of them? If we continue to choose to do nothing, or next to nothing, we continue to hurt those who are homeless and increasingly us.
