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By Eric Michrowski As we navigate through this Black Swan event, I keep being reminded of a book that had captured my attention in my youth. Joseph Conrad’s "Typhoon" presents the story of Captain MacWhirr, a practical leader of few words, and Jukes, a youthful sea mate, as they sail a newly built ship across the South China Sea. Soon into the voyage, the barometer begins to fall rapidly. As the vessel advances into the storm, the savage ferocity of the winds, torrential rains and tempestuous seas begin to attack the ship with incredible force, nearly destroying it. The Captain maintains course. When

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By Kyounghee Choi Here are three powerful principles to help guide your decision-making across both your business and personal life as you navigate through this black swan crisis. There is no perfect formula, case study, analysis or best practice that can be relied upon as this crisis is so unique by its very nature. However, the role of the leader is so critical to ensure long term success. Decisions being made today will help guide whether you survive, thrive or fail when calm waters arrive. Leaders need to have a deeper understanding of what is happening and secure the support of

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By Vicki Scott While this can be an incredibly trying time for Small & Medium business leaders, or those in specialty business categories, there will be survivors! The road ahead will require massive action, determination and work. Canadian small businesses make up 41.7% of our GDP. Between 2013 and 2018, 56.8% of all new jobs were created by small businesses. While finding the needed motivation, enthusiasm and ideas can be incredibly challenging as we navigate through uncharted and tempestuous times, it is critical to recognize that new opportunities will present themselves, for those that are quick, and agile. While news on the

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By Eric Johnson In the current COVID-19 crisis, disruptions to the supply chain have become tremendously apparent, as the entire economy shuts down to contain the spread of the virus and flatten the curve. As we move toward a prolonged shutdown, many organizations are looking to do two things: minimize the damage that the supply chain disruption brings and then position the organization to ramp up quickly if the recovery occurs at a rapid pace amid sharply recovering demand. Communicate with your supply chain First and foremost, supply chain leaders should be on daily calls with their suppliers to understand inventory levels, transportation

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By Stephanie Monge-Sherman While your leadership team may be in crisis mode and navigating the best decisions for your people and the business, management is pivoting their teams and adapting leadership styles to a remote workforce. As noted in Part One of this blog series, effective communication is crucial to coaching employees--but remote coaching strategies do not end there. A truly successful approach to remotely coaching a workforce also involves bolstering the mental vitality of your team for better productivity and overall happiness. With this aim in mind, here are 6 additional tips for coaching a remote workforce: 7. Highlight what’s going well. It

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By Martin Royal While taking care of our health and safety during the COVID-19 crisis is the priority, many will find themselves working remotely for the first time and might face other potential threats: cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity threats aren't breaking news to those of you who are used to work remotely, on-the-road and in public areas. However, the firm McAfee has already identified and reviewed multiple reports that suggest the COVID-19 crisis is being used as bait with criminal intent, whether it is through phishing, email scams, misleading web domains, malware, etc. For cybercriminals, this crisis can be an opportunity to tap

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