A Time for Mending Nets

Vitalizing journaling prompts for leaders in fallow times.

In fishing cultures, when the fish aren’t running and the action is slower, fisherpersons will turn to the tasks that fall through the cracks when things are busy, like mending the nets. If the nets aren’t tended to, they become unusable when they are needed.

In our businesses, we have similar areas that we don’t tend to when we’re busy shipping products or tending to exquisite customer experience. Yet, many of these areas of our business are just as important as the systems and processes or tools we rely on in order to serve the needs of the busier times.

• If market conditions have created a new sense of pace, what nets have your attention and could use some mending?
• What shifts in the mindset of your leadership will support the surfacing of frayed team dynamics that need to be tended to?
• What are the tasks you can focus on in the business that need tending?
• In what ways might tending to holes in your nets strengthen and shore up resources or new ways of generating revenue?