In the previous post I speculated on the lack of clarity about a “new normal” – even the name is wrong, perhaps we should be talking about our “next normal”. Do we want it to be the old normal – a concept of ‘bouncing back’ – or to take the opportunity to transform and ‘bounce […]
Archives for May 2020
… multiple new normals
We hear a lot of talk about the idea of a “new normal” these days. It seems to me that this is a bit premature, as new norms are still emerging. There is nothing commonly accepted as normal yet. Do we simply want to bounce back to the old ways? Clearly many organisations have seen […]
We are all in this together!
The Covid19 outbreak has seen a lot of new government policy created. Here in Australia we have seen lockdown and isolation policies to manage virus impacts and health outcomes, financial assistance packages to soften the economic impact and maintain some commercial readiness for an economic recovery and most recently a focus on the need to […]
… the end of the beginning?
Last week was the 75th anniversary of “VE Day”, and the much anticipated announcements that many countries and jurisdictions would start relaxing their Covid19 economic and social restrictions. There is an important lesson to be taken from World War 2 history that we may like to apply to our Covid exit thinking. “Now this is […]
… isolation, exits and the new journey.
Hello world! It has been some time since my last contribution to professional debate – September last year, on a BCI Webinar “It takes a village – to build resilience”. Here we all are, May 2020, and we have been cooped up in our own ‘isolation’ villages and (here in Australia at least) starting to […]