Tesar-Reynes

I was gone the other week for an outing with 12 other photographers in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. As many of you know, I am an avid shooter. (I invite you to view my photography site here or visit me on Flickr.) As many of you also know, this economy has not produced a super abundance of searches in our industry recently. Getting out of the office was wonderful! I was able to leave behind most of the frustration and disappointments that the last few months have generated. But, in those locations and attitudes, I did not get away from Chicago-like weather.

My expectations for the trip were just about perfectly realized: the fetters of the work place and the household faded away and the real me was able to …

I talked to someone the other week that was told that “he had been relieved of duty” as a CMO. I was one of the people he called after he took some time off to get his head on straight. He was fortunate that the news still had not reached the press. Before discussing the steps for his next job, I asked him these questions:

- Had he gone through most of the stages of grieving?
- Was he thinking straight and were his emotions under control?
- Was there any negotiations left on his separation package, and, was he centered enough to do it?
- Was there agreement with his old company as to the rationale of his leaving the company?
- Did he know what was being said about him by his peers and subordinates at the old company?
- Had he done a personal P&L on how long he …