Managing Organisations During the COVID-19 Vortex is a comprehensive book to help leaders navigate their organisation through the Coronavirus crisis. From managing day-to-day practicalities, to scenario planning and sense-making, this book offers guidelines from over 20 leading experts to help executives deal with their most pressing challenges:
- How to manage uncertainty and complexity; - Leadership excellence in the COVID-19 crisis; - Promoting mental wellness in the workplace; - Sense-making for better decision-making in a crisis - Effective crisis communication; - Economic and social scenarios; - Business contingency planning during COVID-19; - Retaining resilience in chaotic conditions; - How to navigate lockdowns with certainty; - Best practices for managing virtual workers; - The legal implications of COVID-19 for employers; - And more!
This book is essential reading for any executive who is grappling with how to deal with the complexity, uncertainty, and unpredictability of this vortex.
Trusted, bold, and courageous leadership is required to navigate this crisis. Managing Organisations During the COVID-19 Vortex will give leaders the context, tools, guidelines, and perseverance needed to face this crisis head-on and lead their organisations into a future beyond the Coronavirus.
Key chapters include:
- Black swans and the butterfly effect: The keys to understanding COVID-19; - COVID-19: Economic and social impact; - Managing uncertainty, complexity and chaos in a crisis vortex; - Sense-making for decision-making: A futures thinking perspective for executives in times of crisis; - Revisiting, reframing, resetting and re-starting: Navigate crisis lockdowns; - Crisis leadership excellence: Navigating in, beyond and through a crisis; - Leadership in a time of crises: A challenge for the middle; - Business continuity planning during a pandemic: Coronavirus 2020; - Crisis communication: Lessons learned from a pandemic; - Remaining resilient in traumatic and chaotic conditions; - Promoting personal and workplace mental health in the age of COVID-19; - Stress: Manage it and build resilience; - Virtual working practices; - Tencent responding to the coronavirus; - Coronavirus in a fractured democracy; - The coronavirus vortex: Employment; - The coronavirus: Implications for employers; - The day after COVID-19.
