There was a big landslide in October: the cliffs here are pretty unstable and fragile, essentially made of mud and sand, so it’s not unusual for them to crumble. This one knocked out some beach huts and buried the promenade that runs between the cliffs and the beach. Fortunately it wasn’t part of the cliffs where the goats live (they get free board and lodging in return for keeping the undergrowth under control)
A couple of years ago, when another part of the cliffs collapsed, there was a huge engineering project to stabilise them, including a crab like robot that wove a wire net over large sections of the slope, much to our delight. This time though, the strategy is to do nothing. Just leave it alone, and see what happens.
It can be hard to do nothing (especially when this means no robots).
Use your sixty seconds today to consider when your leadership is about action, and a time when you did your best by doing nothing.
Nothing is not about negligence: in some contexts, the role of a leader is to ensure the health and boundaries of the system, not to continually take action within the system. But it can be hard to be still.
I hope you are having a great week so far!
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