The Coronavirus - an opportunity for human mankind?!
Susan Bregenzer
Professional Co-Active Coach and Transformation Leader at Siemens #FacesOfTransformation
This morning a thought crossed my mind: “The Coronavirus is a gift for human mankind”.
Obviously I am not referring to the hardship that we experience as society or individually in these days. And I do not want to dishonor any struggle we are having right now, especially in the health and economic system.
Yet, I like to reflect on the opportunities from it.
What is the impact of the Corona virus on a meta level?
The virus relentlessly disrupts our individual and societal life without differentiation. We get pulled out of our daily routines and find ourselves in a lot of new situations requiring us to find our new answers on how to deal with it (e.g. home office, home schooling, and an exponentially spreading virus reality - to just name a few challenges).
This bears an opportunity (besides the adversity)! We as humans get to pause, revisit and rethink how we work, relate to each other and how we prioritize our actions. We get to look at our current reality, the systems, processes and habits and get to decide what serves us still and what we do want to change.
So let’s use this moment and engage in “spring cleaning” and let go of outdated processes and thinking - individually and as society. Let’s grab new opportunities to co-create and adapt our systems & ways of working.
In fact, this is what we see happening already. Look at the many initiatives of people reaching out and offering help to each other as the crises fortifies. Life asks us to show up as true humans, supporting each other and … by and large we are mastering challenges. People connect on virtual channels, supporting each other.
Thinking this one step further, we now have the chance to further transform the role our businesses hold in society. The business of business is not business anymore. It is time to integrate business back into the center of our communities. Business evolves to put serving society at the core of their strategies.
One last thought: Similarly to the business world, other fragmented, silo-optimized systems can transform as well into eco-systems. E.g. the plethora of healthcare institutions can de-silo and concertedly focus on the well-being of people maximizing their overall impact vs. maximizing their silo profits.
Curious to hear what you think?
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6 个月Susan, thanks for sharing!
50plus Erfahrung im Unternehmen strategisch erschlie?en und wirkungsvoll gestalten – für produktive und engagierte Teams.
4 年Dear Susan, I follow your thoughts with tremendous interest, and I’ll confess: I am not yet in a position to cope with this onslaught of feelings and I am not able to look into our bright future. I wish to all of us, first and foremost, that we survive the pandemic – and that we will be granted the opportunity to meet our transforming and transformed selves.?
Good food for thoughts!
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4 年Thank you Susan! Wisely said! And also thanks to Ricky - I also came across that one and love it! Hopefully we will have our lessons learned out of this crisis!
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4 年"Yes, and!" what a reframe! This is exactly how we're viewing this crisis, as a welcome disruption to the status quo. As people who "believe in a better way," it's our job to make today's workarounds (e.g., online learning) tomorrow's "new norm." Why must information be housed on college campuses, inaccessible to billions of humans?