This week's opening thought: If you're senior leadership in an organization and you haven't taken one moment over the past ten months to consider how everything happening in the United States is impacting the mental, physical, and emotional well being of the people who work for you, especially your team members from marginalized, vilified, and targeted communities?

You need to own that you don't care about the people who work for your organization.

If in the last few months you haven't taken the time to work with other senior leaders in your organization to develop contingency plans, resource guides, an on-site food pantry, or any other support for the folx working for you trying to take care of themselves and their families while being chastised for a mistake on a report?

You need to own that productivity, profit, and personal comfort matter more to you than people.

And if somehow, over this past month, you haven't thought for one second how many of your organization's salaries aren't enough for the people who work for you to survive and take care of themselves, their families, or their communities without government assistance yet you're figuring out where the company Christmas party is gonna be held this year (emphasis on "Christmas" because so many people complained last year about it being called a holiday party)?

You need to own that human life and survival are barely tertiary concerns for you.

Own that you view people as an end to a means.

Own that your comfort is much more important than human lives.

Own that you just don't care.

Own it.

You might as well, because you ain't foolin' anyone.