Think of a time when you experienced your own fear or anxiety. It’s also something that can sabotage our best thinking, decision-making, and capacity to innovate during challenging times. It’s the part of us that slams on the breaks when we see a car suddenly stop in front of us, or that runs when an animal attacks. This response is a hardwired evolutionary adaptation that can serve us well when we are under immediate physical threat. When we experience a fight, flight, or freeze response, our adrenaline, cortisol, and blood pressure rise to help us meet a situation that our body perceives as putting us in critical danger. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, refers to this as the “ amygdala hijack. When the amygdala determines there’s an immediate threat, our physiology goes into a fight or flight response.
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It puts us into survival mode, pumping adrenaline and shifting our brain capacity from our executive functioning into our midbrain where we make split-second decisions of how to respond to threat. It’s our emotional warning system that something is a threat. When Fear Takes Holdįear is an adaptive response designed to protect us from danger. Leaders are the ones we trust to manage and handle their fear and our own by being honest, clear, and by providing a vision for a positive future. We want to hear that they’re part of something larger than themselves, that leaders have got their back, that we’re all for one and one for all, and that we will help each other get through the crisis and potentially become stronger for it.
In a crisis, we look to leaders for answers, for a calm mind, and a strong perspective. It is in the most stressful moments that leaders are most important. So what role does fear play in leadership during this time of change, challenge, and significant stress?
adults (56%) report that “worry or stress related to the coronavirus outbreak has caused them to experience at least one negative effect on their mental health and wellbeing.” Our organizational leaders are no exception. Only I will remain.” - American writer Frank HerbertĪccording to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, over half of U.S. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
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