Remember How to Let Go

Earlier this week, Window Media, which published a number of weekly newspapers across the U.S., went out of business. This result was apparently coming for some time, but the leadership failed to prepare their employees for the likely, almost inevitable, end.

On Monday morning, some employees got phone calls telling them their newspaper was shutting down, and they need to quickly come collect their belongings. In other cities, the writers and design editors and the rest of the staffs showed up to find locked offices and a notice telling them when they needed to return to get their stuff later in the week.

No warning. The employees knew things were bad, but few realized just how bad.

Perhaps their leadership would have benefitted from reading this.