Keep them fighting fit – conduct training, engage them in brainstorming, conduct team-building games (online is an option). But even as we acknowledge these facts, we can’t afford to overanalyze and indulge in doom’s day predictions. Some teammates may have lost salaries, jobs and even family members. Your team will be battered financially, morally, health-wise or a combination of any. No point going over the past, let’s prepare to win the next battle(s), and Sun Tzu has 5 maxims on planning to win… “He wins whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout the ranks.” Well, we couldn’t see the pandemic or estimate the size and outcome, but surely we could have allocated resources to plan for worst case scenarios. The firefighting of today is due to this war (pandemic) that we never saw coming. However, while we have to fight the fire(s), we also have to plan for various outcomes in the post pandemic world.īut if we are too engaged with the ‘now’ – won’t we constantly be busy dealing with ‘now’ because we never took time to plan for tomorrow? Sun Tzu’s quote resonates – while we are in the war, we should be planning for the peace to come. With the pandemic upon us, many organisations have had knee-jerk reactions and resorted to firefighting. This manuscript, written over 2500 years ago, has maxims that could teach us to survive corporate battles including the onslaught of the pandemic. “In war, prepare for peace in peace, prepare for war.” – Sun Tzu, author, ‘The Art Of War’.
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