Coping Strategy Playlist

A VP of Operations describes his coping strategy as exercise: when work gets difficult, he runs. This works until it doesn't — when he's traveling, when he's injured, when the situation requires him to be present rather than absent. In those circumstances he reports becoming visibly short-tempered and withdrawing from his team. He has one strategy, and when it's unavailable, he has nothing.

Frame this as a toolkit expansion exercise, not a stress management protocol. 'You have one excellent strategy. This wor...