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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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