Lees-top 10: Wanneer eindigt de pandemie?

In het wekelijkse vakmediaoverzicht: zo motiveert u uw team in een langere periode van crisis.

1. A Checklist for Boards in the New Normal
Boards make decisions that have a long-term impact on companies. In a survey of 266 chairs, directors and CEOs in 23 countries between May and June to assess how boards have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, we found that the pandemic had cemented some long-existing best practices and also birthed a few innovative approaches.

2. Digitally Innovate to Create Real Value
One of the biggest challenges C-suite executives face today is around the disparity that exists in how revenue is valued by Wall Street. Depending on a company’s business model, one company can generate a dollar and Wall Street measures it as a dollar. Another company, such as Zoom, can make a dollar and that same dollar is valued at $90. Clearly, a dollar is not a dollar anymore.

3. 3 Ways to Motivate Your Team Through an Extended Crisis
As we flip our calendars to yet another month of our large-scale Covid-19 remote-work experiment, it’s no wonder that motivation, performance, and well-being are flagging for many. Months in, managers need new tools to reenergize their teams, to accurately identify and diagnose recurring struggles, and to empathetically help employees address their problems.

4. Conserving Capital in the Time of COVID
FEI's Dillon Papenfuss spoke with Anthony Jackson, a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory principal in corporate restructuring, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP, about how the complexities surrounding capital management will change as the pandemic continues.

5. Leading your team of hunter-gatherers
Leaders who expect things to get back to “normal” are ignoring the lessons of evolutionary history. Our current circumstances demand that businesses, and their leadership, adapt or die — but how? The answer to this question also lies in humanity’s deep past.

6. How to Harness the Digital Transformation of the Covid Era
Digital technology is at the center of today’s economic development debate due to its wide use during the Covid-19 outbreak. While there is no doubt that the pandemic is amplifying the adoption of new technologies, technological advancements were already changing the world over the past two decades, from living standards to the very nature of our work.

7. When Business as Usual Isn’t Working, Look to Nonprofits for Inspiration
In the Covid-era, businesses must — and will — play an essential role in dealing with the hardships created by the pandemic. But to do so, they must also recognize how the ground has shifted under them: Inclusivity is more important than ever; there’s pressure on leaders to weigh social outcomes, as well as economic ones; and resources for achieving all of this are scarcer than usual. Existing approaches may not be sufficient to meet the challenge.

8. What 800 executives envision for the postpandemic workforce
The responses to the survey point to a period of disruptive change ahead. Not only has COVID-19 thrown millions of individuals out of work, but the mix of jobs that emerge from this crisis is likely different than those that were lost….

9. When will the COVID-19 pandemic end?
More than eight months and 900,000 deaths into the COVID-19 pandemic,1 people around the world are longing for an end. In our view, there are two important definitions of “end,” each with a separate timeline…

10. Ten things to know about gender equality
In 2015, the 193 member countries of the United Nations came together to commit to 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Goal 5 focused on gender equality and set the ambitious target of achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls everywhere by 2030. Five years later, large gender gaps remain across the world, and the early evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a regressive effect on gender equality.