The COVID-19 pandemic has left supply chains around the world with numerous cracks. The disruptions and crises it has caused have revealed deep fault lines in both leadership and business operations. Covid has put digital disruption on fast forward, challenging leaders – even those who have historically operated with a predictable and limited disruption to their supply chains.
While some business leaders see Covid as an insurmountable challenge, others, including myself, embrace it as an opportunity. My decades of experience have shown me that disruptions are not just inevitable, they can serve as organizational health indicators. While an outsize disruption can put an organization’s scalability and agility at risk, capable authentic transformational leaders (ATLs) transcend disruptions.
