Commemorating those lost during 9 /11
Everyone remembers where they were on that tragic day and will do so to eternity. Covid 19 too has given us ‘a date to remember,’ being the confirmation of a global pandemic, in March 2020, forcing us to look at a totally new way of how we run our lives and our businesses. What we are experiencing is recognition that all will change at all levels of our lives.
Industries will be looking at how they need to approach this new state of being, as their clients and ‘woke’ Governments are ‘aware,’ people will also decide that they too, do not want to add to the challenges we face in the world.
A great example would be climate change, and a call for the gross reduction of manufacturing and using pollutant plastic. Another divisive area of concern might be that working from home instead of offices may suit some, but not all. Lastly but possibly the most pressing fallout as a result of this pandemic, is the lack of action or responsibility from some Governments, who turn a blind eye to the tragic job losses affecting so many families globally, and show a total lack of humanity and government assistance.
One of the result of 9/11 was that a forum was created in Switzerland, inviting a group of CEO’s and business leaders to attend, primarily to work together for answers needed as a result of the global fallout after 9/11. They were hoping for a consensus on what the world was facing so that they could agree on a ‘new road to travel’ in and for business.
How does one grow an economy, when Governments are not doing what they have been mandated to do, and how does industry need to learn what changes must be made when they may be looking through ‘one lens’ and ‘one way of thinking?’
After various management psychological tests, this “invited group” of global CEO’s met in Europe, and were placed into various groupings without explanation as to how the organisers selected these groups. The next step was to propose a complicated business situation to work with, of post 9/11 issues, and the following occurred:
1. Those in likeminded groups, came up with a quicker solution
2. Those in totally mixed groups took a lot longer & argued about a final solution to work with, but came up with a far better and more dynamic and creative solution.
3. The finding was that people who thought differently to others would add benefit to a complicated situation within a company, whereas those who had similar thinking would agree with each other and not look at all perspectives of a given situation.
Perhaps it is time to “Think out of the Box” and recognise that familiarity can make us a little blind, and perhaps diversity & innovation could help us toward the dawning of a new and better world?
