Like those old scary movies…creature from the black lagoon. Moonlight on the water, ripples small at first. Then you see a head, then neck, shoulders, a trunk emerges, all covered in black yucky goo, smelling putrid and sulfuric. The creature is covered in wretched mud, dripping stinky black slime, standing on the bank, gazing outward. That’s how I feel. That’s exactly how I think I look. Only I’m emerging from the pandemic.

Now imagine a group of creatures, dripping, stinking, and standing on the bank, male, female, big and small—about seven give or take and you have what company leadership ...