So Many Feelings. Too Many?

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Liz Fosslien believes “the future of work is emotional.” The Amys revisit our 2020 conversation with her and fellow organizational consultant Mollie West Duffy about the good that can come from being vulnerable with colleagues, and Fosslien returns to reassess where the line between vulnerability and oversharing is today.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
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0:27.0	Amy B, do you ever see Liz Fossiline's drawings about feelings that she posts on LinkedIn.
0:33.6	I've actually seen them in the book she's written with Molly West Duffy.
0:37.4	Yeah, those books are such a lifeline of support for me, not just for difficult situations at work but anything
0:44.8	about feelings I actually bought my daughter their page a day calendar for
0:48.7	Christmas last year and we refer to it a lot. There's actually one that's labeled leadership at the top and
0:56.7	it shows a person walking on a tight rope and on one side it says sharing too much
1:01.3	and on the other side it says sharing too little.
1:04.0	I love that one and there's one that really speaks to me is all about despair.
1:08.4	It's from their book Big Feelings and it shows like a it looks like a ping pong ball sized circle that says despair and next to it a
1:18.9	dot that is like one tenth the size that's labeled despair shared with people who get it
1:25.6	and then next to those two a softball-sized dot that says despair shared with people who don't get it. Yeah, that really that that
1:38.0	landed. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. There's also like Liz does a lot of these bar charts and they're very simple and there's one where the Y access is how big a problem feels and there's a very large bar when it says when you shoulder it alone and then the
1:54.9	bars like a quarter of the size when you can talk to someone about it and I
1:59.7	think that's sort of that same feeling about despair of like just being able to share your
2:04.7	emotions makes them feel more manageable makes it easier to be resilient and to do your job.
2:12.1	Yeah I think sometimes just saying things out loud
2:14.4	yeah like that helps you either confront them or realize they're maybe not as
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