As we head into the seventh month of our new reality – longer in some countries – many organizations are still struggling to cope with the rapidly changing business environment. Meanwhile, other organizations have been quick to adapt, innovate, and embrace the new way of doing business. Why is that? Whether it’s a forced change […]
In A World Turned Upside-Down, Six Reasons Why Small Is Beautiful COVID-19 has turned everything upside down. Businesses and their leaders face unprecedented challenges, and are having to make tough and unpalatable decisions just to keep things afloat. Small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) have undoubtedly been disproportionately affected, but larger organizations have not been immune. […]
Time For Transparent Leadership Business leaders are having to learn and develop a whole new set of skills to deal with the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 era. The paper I have written for Mythos Group explores four key areas for building leadership resiliency during this time, skills that will be required in whatever the […]
Managing Fear During The Pandemic Many business leaders are struggling right now, as they grapple with unforeseen, unprecedented and seemingly unsolvable challenges. Their teams look to them for leadership, which is why I wrote a paper on the subject for Mythos Group, offering practical guidance in a number of key areas required for building leadership […]
Trust Me, I’m A Leader: Building Leadership Resiliency Post-COVID-19 The unprecedented nature of COVID-19 poses enormous challenges for business leaders, challenges for which most are ill-prepared. In a paper I have written for Mythos Group, I explore four key tenets of building leadership resiliency for the post-COVID-19 era: 1. Positive mindset 2. Build trust 3. […]
Leadership Lessons For The COVID Era: Why Positivity Pays The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike any other crisis in recent times, and as the number of new cases continues to grow globally, business leaders face unprecedented challenges. The mounting uncertainty of what the new normal will look like, and how they will not just survive, but […]
Retailers: Are Your Customers Shopping Around? There can be few industries where the need to understand, respond to, and even anticipate consumer behavior is more important than retail. And consumer behavior is changing in unprecedented ways, during the global pandemic. In a new paper I have written for Mythos Group I consider the importance of […]
Post-COVID-19, The Need For Supply Chain Resiliency In Retail The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced many things that we already know to be true, but perhaps previously underplayed, including the fact that any business is only as robust as its supply chain. This is certainly true of retail, which relies on multiple partners in different parts […]
It’s Now Or Never For The Digital Transformation Of Retail The retail sector has been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many famous brands closing their doors for good. But the truth is, retail was undergoing a long and sometimes painful transformation long before the pandemic hit. The paper I have written for […]
Must Retailers Restructure To Survive? While almost every industry has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are few where the impact has been more obvious than retail. Famous retail brands have gone under, as they were forced to shutter their stores, accelerating a trend that was already in train long before the pandemic; […]
Keeping Retail Staff And Customers Safe In The COVID-19 Era COVID-19 has caused substantial economic chaos, mandating significant changes to many industry sectors, and retail in particular. From iconic department stores to entertainment giants, COVID-19 has seemingly spared no one in its devastation. Mythos Group has been re-imagining what retail might look like, post-pandemic, and […]
Post-COVID-19, Creating A New Normal In The Workplace, Some days it’s hard to imagine, but one day this will all be over. A vaccine, or vaccines, will have been developed and distributed, the deaths and illnesses will have ceased, and we will be able to work and socialize again. But not in the same way. […]
Who’s In, Who’s Out? The Responsible Guide To Bringing Staff Back To Work Organizations are faced with the tremendous challenge of ramping up to full productivity, post-COVID-19. And in almost all cases, that will look different from how it did before the pandemic. In the paper I have written for Mythos Group, I examine four […]
Post-COVID-19, Reimagining How Work Is Done The unprecedented economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting an estimated four out of five of the world’s workforce of 3.2 billion people, and for many of those, work may never be the same again. Countries across the world are making their way towards relaxing COVID-19 lockdowns, […]
As governments, businesses, public health officials, and other organizations wrestle with what the workplace should look like in and beyond the COVID-19 era, there is a lot of speculation and conjecture about just what this ‘new normal’ will be. But there is little doubt that a new normal will emerge, rather than a return to […]
In A World Transformed By COVID-19, Digital Transformation Is More Important Than Ever Until recently, globalization was heralded as the major engine of global economic growth, and central to globalization has been the expansion of global value chains (or GVCs). However, the COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally challenged the logic of globalization. It has brutally exposed […]
Bringing It All Back Home: Why COVID-19 Makes Reshoring A Real Smart Choice The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the breakdown of many global value chains, and is prompting many international businesses to re-assess theirs, in order to build resiliency against future disruptions. In a new white paper, authored for the management consulting firm, Mythos […]
The Lessons Are Clear: In a Post-Pandemic World, Businesses Will Need To Reduce Their Reliance On China Quite apart from causing an unprecedented global humanitarian and economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the interconnected and interdependent global value chain that drives economies around the world. In a new white paper, authored […]
The Execution Gap is the biggest gap of all. It’s created by combination of static approaches to managing the strategic roll-out and the organizations’ resistance to change. Since every consultant on the planet has their own version of tools to manage the execution phase – I’m not going to focus on that here. Instead, I’m […]
The Learning Gap is a second reason many strategies fail. Why? Because we think we know what’s the latest and greatest, when in fact, we don’t. The foundation of the Learning Gap is a paradox. Here’s how it works We’re all trained to seek the status of expert. In business and in our hobbies […]
