What competencies will leaders need in a new Covid-19 world?

Abstract

The Covid-19 crisis created a particular pattern of shock – a rolling, growing, unpredictably evolving and quickly accelerating shock with fundamental, deeply-felt and frequently tragic impacts. The leadership agenda in response to this has, and will need to be equally fundamental, and, particularly for organisations in distress, undertaken with urgency.Whether they be leaders within the public or private sector, they will need to at least re-visit and potentially create new visions and values for their organisations; to embed resilience and resourcefulness in order to sustain new shocks; to undertake more horizon-scanning particularly for low-frequency but high-impact existential risks; and to engage and inspire virtually-working and remote teams behind the new vision for their organisations.