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THE FIVE SHIFTS LEADERS NEED

TO MAKE NOW

DR JEN FRAHM PHOTOGRAPH BY BENJAMIN CHILD, UNSPLASH
The pandemic – a disruptor and accelerator

f we think about the pandemic, if we to think that our world was volatile, in the ‘during’ times and it’s not stopping
think about our current context, we uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. - it is continuing with greater and more
Ineed to acknowledge that it is both Well, my wordy, haven’t we changed our extreme uncertainty in the ‘after’ times,
a disruptor and an accelerant. view on that? as we emerge from the crisis.
In the past, we used to talk with leaders In the last two years, we’ve certainly A McKinsey study told us that
in organisations about the concept of a had a masterclass in what volatile really adoption of working from home and
VUCA environment - volatile, uncertain, is. If change was relentless in the ‘before’ remote working flexibility occurred
complex, and ambiguous. And we used times, it became brutally imposed on us 40 times faster than the time it had
taken to adopt remote working prior
to COVID. In the space of nine days,
the world adopted working from home
under lockdown conditions. Compare
that with the 11 months it was taking
most companies before COVID. We
really need to be mindful that there is
the potential for this to be an incredible
accelerant if we have the right mindset.

WE NEED TO THINK DIFFERENTLY,
WORK DIFFERENTLY, LEARN
DIFFERENTLY
The intense dynamic of today’s
PHOTOGRAPH BY THOUGHT CATALOG, UNSPLASH disruptive world means that we need to

think differently. We need to adopt new
ways of working, be more collaborative,
increase diversity in our organisations’
more empowered and autonomous
workforces. We have to learn differently

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