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Times of adversity are a constraint that can produce incredible creativity. My own productivity kicked into high gear during this period of fear and uncertainty. The race now run, a victory lap’s in order — just long enough to rejoice, reflect and recover — before a return to the starting line.
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A few years ago, I hosted a series of closed-door salons with industry pioneers and our graduate students. In those pre-pandemic days, we met in person, enjoyed some appetizers and communed with visionary leaders from my professional network. As we pondered how to continue to ignite such high-value connections this past year, my successor and…
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We can’t courageously communicate, until we do the potentially more courageous work of convening our stakeholders to determine what matters most to all of us. With that foundation of principles, ethics and values, we can then more easily make decisions in the fog of uncertainty, which should always align with that cultural bedrock.
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Just as they did in 2007 with storytelling, do organizations today have the opportunity to create trustful refuges, especially when it comes to making decisions around technologies and larger trends? The past year has only underlined the connection between a global crisis, the adoption of technologies to manage this crisis, and the social upheaval it…