Take A Moment To Think About Peacetime
As an entrepreneur or manager, are you now in war mode? Start thinking today about what you will do when the enormous pressure on your company disappears, and you return to peacetime.
Suppose you asked European or American hospitals in January if they could build an emergency room within two weeks, just like they did in China. Then people might have laughed. Yet a vast number of hospitals did manage to do this three months later, under enormous pressure. They have shown that they can be flexible and can speed up decision making.
In recent months we have seen a tremendous amount of adoption of new technology and new leadership dealings. It might be easy to think about the new normal as going back to how things were before the coronavirus outbreak. However, most leaders have now had a wake-up call.
Consider, for example, the flexibility of labor. But also an offering of emotional support for employees and the opportunity to rest from rapidly changing work.
So take a moment this day to think about peacetime. I am sure that it will help you stay flexible, and it will most definitely speed up your decision-making in the long run.
