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Leaders in organisations have learned the importance of caring for and trusting their people during times of intense change.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that remote work is effective, debunking the idea that it's only for slackers.
Companies have divided into two groups in response to the changes brought by the pandemic: one group is becoming more radical, ambitious, and experimental, while the other is waiting for a return to business as usual.
The world has become increasingly unpredictable, challenging the traditional three-legged stool of forecasting, planning, and executing in management.
Embracing change often requires sacrifice, and leaders and organisations need to acknowledge this fact to make meaningful transformations, especially in areas like D&I.
Dr Margaret Heffernan's sixth and most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020. It quickly became a bestseller and was nominated for the Financial Times Best Business Book award, was one of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2021 and was chosen as the “Medium Best of the Best” business book.
Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, described as “meticulously researched…engagingly written…universally relevant and hard to fault.” Her TED talks have been seen by over 27 million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes.
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