Harvard Business School surveyed 600 CEOs recently and asked them what keeps them awake at night during this global pandemic. The results found that almost every aspect of doing business must be completely rethought for both short-term survival and long-term success.
The issues cited fall into three main categories:
1. Continuous learning and integrating new information.
2. Making complex decisions and plans quickly and solving problems.
3. Empathy, maintaining wellness and focus.
I'm a big believer in lifelong learning. You don't go to school once for a lifetime; you are in school all of your life. Companies need to create a corporate culture that strives for continuous improvement.
In his 1995 book "Managing in a Time of Great Change," Peter Drucker, the late, great management guru, wrote: "It is a safe prediction that in the next 50 years, schools and universities will change more and more drastically than they have since they assumed their present form more than 300 years ago when they reorganized themselves around the printed book.
"What will force these changes is, in part, new technology; … in part, the demands of a knowledge-based society in which organized learning must become a lifelong process."
