Crisis, innovation and leadership
What is the crisis revealing about innovation and leadership in our organizations? The pandemic – the latest incarnation of multiple global disruptions in our VUCA world – challenges every aspect of our lives and the way we see, think, plan, and act. It also challenges the purpose, the mission, the processes, and even the survival of our organizations. And because almost everything is changing or must be reinvented - sometimes radically - we can say confidently that the organizations that succeed now and will thrive in the future are those led by and populated with innovators. But, who are those innovators? Genuine leaders build resilient organizations. They achieve it by constantly developing and innovating. Their fields of innovation for resilience include organizations’ mission, structures, processes, people, and relationships. The pandemic crisis has demonstrated once again: organizational resilience…