ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is on the kind of grieving process that people tend to go through, although there is ‘no road map for how executives (or anyone else) should deal with grief’.1 Bereavement is such an individual experience that it is foolish to imagine we can describe with any precision the route that is to be taken beforehand. Colin Parry, for example, has written after the murder of his son, Tim, by the IRA in Warrington that he and his wife Wendy ‘learned that people do not grieve according to schedules and timetables. There can be wild and irrational mood swings. There were times when grief and anger overcame me and she appeared calm and controlled. There were times when the raw emotion was hers, and I was numb and frozen’.2
