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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

But you can be prepared and follow a method to futureproof your business against the next crisis. It is a way through the next crisis you will face. A crisis is a time for deepening your core values, not abandoning them. A crisis is a time for deepening your core values, not abandoning them. Be honest and transparent.

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Dealing with the Two Fronts of Every Crisis

Leading Blog

E VERY CRISIS places a leader between two fronts: Issue and Fear. Understanding the difference and managing both is key to dealing with a crisis successfully. There is the crisis where the issue is known, there is a procedure for handling it, and success in dealing with it comes down to proper execution of the solution.

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What People Need From Their Leader In A Crisis

Lead from Within

Being a leader always comes with enormous responsibility, but being a leader in crisis adds significance and depth to that responsibility. One successful approach is to focus on the things people look to their leader to provide in a time of crisis. If you normally speak to your people once a month, do it weekly during a crisis.

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Understanding the Link Between Leadership and Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Despite the status of the Covid-19 outbreak as the single biggest health and socio-economic crisis since the Second World War, it’s also hard to dispute the transformative power of coronavirus across the board. But what’s the relationship between leadership and innovation and why exactly should you care?

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How This Crisis Will Change the Future Of Leadership

Lead from Within

Every crisis, large or small, influences the way we lead because it causes us to stop, recalibrate, and innovate. A global crisis of the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic brings wide-ranging changes—changes that not only affect a single organization or industry or nation but that cause us to rebuild the way we think about leadership.

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How Innovation Changes During A Recession

The Horizons Tracker

While Winston Churchill was famously supposed to have remarked that we should never waste a crisis, the reality is that during recessions, firms often tighten their belts and reduce the amount they invest in innovation. “We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century’s worth of U.S.

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How Do Pandemics Affect Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Scientists continue to draw lessons from the global health crisis introduced by the Spanish flu in order to gain insights into the repercussions of the latest one. The researchers posited that cities subject to more prolonged restrictions fostered an environment of certainty, thereby preserving a crucial element in the innovation process.