Guest opinion: New leadership practices for a new era
BY JANN FREED Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:05 AM
The past year has been a “perfect storm” of five global crises: pandemic, economic, racial, climate and leadership. And the polarization of society is on top of all of these challenges. As one crisis builds on the next, it is easy to long for the way life used to be. While we don’t know what the new reality will be after COVID-19, most authorities are telling us the world will not return to normal as we knew it.
Last summer, I hosted a Virtual Leadership Summit in which I interviewed more than 20 thought leaders. Some of them were former CEOs, top executive coaches and others were influencers. One of the questions I asked each of them was: How do you predict leadership will change in the future as a result of the global pandemic?
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Steve Collis and his family talk with family members in Delaware and Ohio on a ZOOM call on Thanksgiving Day on Nov. 26, 2020 in Valrico, Florida. (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)
We have two grandchildren: one born in the middle of the pandemic, irresistibly cute, and too young to know who grandpa is yet – and the other who just turned 2 and lives across the country.
The youngest is nearby so we can visit in person, but the 2-year-old we have to visit remotely, which we do – pretty frequently.
All that obsessing over kids getting too much screen time is pretty much out the window now. Her mom just props up the phone she can talk to me in her two-word sentences.