There’s your business before Covid-19 (customers, team, marketplace, purpose). And there’s business after. How different those two worlds will be is anyone’s guess. Analysts will tell you it’ll be completely different. That sells analyst reports. Anyone afraid of change will tell you we’ll go back to the way it was. They believe that will protect […]
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Remote working increases your need to align at 4 levels
Remote working should force most business leaders to think hard about how they lead. Especially as tomorrow’s world of work will be a lot more remote than yesterday’s. For many team members, it creates much higher levels of independence than they’ve felt in an office. That level of autonomy can be really empowering. Many no […]
Rethink your strategy with Purpose in mind
One of the consequences of Covid19 is that many companies will have to rethink strategy. Not only for managing through the crisis, but for what we will need to look like for the economic climate that we’re going to find ourselves in post-crisis. The tangible trend over the last decade has been for companies to […]
Unknown unknowns can make you stronger
Unknown unknowns can be bad. AND create opportunities. For business leaders, an unk unk ( as Boeing engineers called it half a century before Rumsfeld made the phrase famous) throws up questions we have no certain answers to. Will I lose clients and revenue while it’s going on? How do I minimise the impact? Will […]
Can the Coronavirus make us better?
I used to think that only when the aliens attacked would we find enough common ground to work together as a single human race. Because although we face innumerable global challenges, from environmental to social to political, it is only when the danger seems immediate that we respond. It seems Covid-19 beat the aliens. Now […]