g-f(1)2 Reshaping strategies for a reimagined future in the New Normal

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The New Normal is rife with opportunity: The time to reinvent yourself, to take advantage of your moment. 

• The unfreezing — the result of COVID-19 having swept away a status quo that inhibited change — is a chance for leaders to significantly transform their organizations and society. 
• Cocreating the future with your organization may prove to be the crucible of your leadership journey. It will take imagination, persistence, and moral courage. Use your time wisely. Rethink what’s possible.
• Knowledge makes for a more productive and resilient economy, and leads to the kind of agility and problem-solving ability that is especially needed in the face of sudden unanticipated shocks.

Genioux knowledge fact condensed as an image.

Condensed knowledge

• Moving forward with confidence may be stalled by uncertainties that make it difficult to think long term.
• Being caught between the past and future is not such a bad place to be. 
• Our present moment is rife with opportunity. The unfreezing — the result of COVID-19 having swept away a status quo that inhibited change — is a chance for leaders to significantly transform their organizations and society. 
• Our past losses may still demand grieving, and the future must still be planned, but when we focus our attention on the here and now, we can see new possibilities arising. Seize your moment.
• Cocreating the future with your organization may prove to be the crucible of your leadership journey. It will take imagination, persistence, and moral courage. Use your time wisely. Rethink what’s possible.
• Companies can no longer rely on traditional forecasting exercises to spot — and capitalize on — emerging threats and opportunities. 
• Our research shows that sensemaking is, in fact, a predictor of leadership success. And yet few leaders model or implement sensemaking in their organizations. 
• By elevating cybersecurity from an operational necessity to a source of opportunity, leaders can boost resilience and business advantage. 
• How can companies strategize once they have recognized the limitations of long-term planning in an unpredictable world? By mercilessly examining their own weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and by gaming out their own destruction before someone — or something — does it for them. 

Category 1: A new, better world for everyone

[genioux fact extracted from MIT SMR]

Authors of the genioux fact

Fernando Machuca

References

Reboot your strategy, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2020, Vol 62, No 1. 

Seize the Moment, Elizabeth Heichler, September 08, 2020, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2020, Vol 62, No 1.

• Elizabeth Heichler (@eheichler) is the executive editor at MIT Sloan Management Review.