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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. It brings to mind the groundbreaking work of Dutch sociologist Geert Hofstede. Organizational agility.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies. Greece tops this index of uncertainty-avoidance across all countries, scoring 100 out of 100.