Innovation and The Black Plague

I had a recent email exchange with a friend, regarding this current CoronaVirus situation, and I thought I would share it, as I think it is relevant here.

Friend: "So Fin what's your prediction with the chaos both health wise, local economy and global economy? Note: small question over email I know.”

Fin: “Great question, something too large for me to articulate here in an email, however a high level prediction follows below.

There has been lots of talk about lots of things over the last decade, remote work, social responsibility, overvalued unicorns, x-orgs with different leadership structures, blockchain, crypto, trans humanism, 4 day work week, emotional intelligence the list goes on and on.

Today, we as a society are so risk averse, and have such strong belief systems, that we resist change like we are hanging on for dear life, as a society we over validate new things to the point that we destroy the very essence of them.

We have to have proof, then more proof, even after this we fail to adopt things just in case something goes wrong.

We are afraid for the most part, as some part of our lives is often leveraged against the things we want to change, but feel we can’t.

Big data has become the big validator, technology has made our lives easier, it seems we don’t want to work at doing something new, but however, will quickly adopt it, if someone else proves it, and has the financial capacity to buy the narrative of those we trust, and program our minds with continual messaging on media

This leaves the only ones that can typically facilitate this change are the companies with billions for marketing influence driving commercialism aspiration.

Events like what we are witnessing now are amazing. They are inflection points in history when the world will change, Black Plague, Wall Street crash, WW1 and 2 are examples of times like this.

These times shake the fabric of society, and force people to adopt the new, fear drives this new.

Funny thing is once people and organisations try the new, they often realise how easy and valuable the change is, and because of this reevaluate the old in a new light.

So in summary at a high level, to answer your question.

I believe these times will define a new way of working and living, they will reset what’s important to people, and much more.

Companies will start to think about changing the way they operate, from acquiring buildings designed to house people that don’t want to be there, to putting the customers viewpoint above short term profits at all costs....power structures will change.

I see opportunity and am going to be more vocal in the market about building a platform to embrace change

Now is a great opportunity......