Pretty much everywhere you look, read, or listen, stories of advancement are met with reasons to think the sky is falling. The global battle against COVID-19 has many organizations scrambling to adapt. Those that are able, began working from home. Companies are trying their best to keep their employees well cared for and safe through a period of isolation while scenario planning the immediate impact of revenue losses (we recently discussed concrete ways to plan for this uncertainty and manage resilience in a webinar). The government and our Department of Defense are trying to work through a new normal in which value and outcomes of work are not measured by attendance and ‘hands-on’ management approaches. However, disruption also demands that we pause and focus over the horizon.
