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Welcome to ‘Speak Easy’ – WSB’s blog featuring expert advice from the world’s best thought leaders.

Heather McGowan explains how the pandemic accelerated the velocity of change and ushered in two profound transitions: a revolution in the relationship between individuals and organizations, and the digital disruption that has transformed organizations from linear to complex.

Leading the Empowered Workforce

6 September, 2022 · Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan explains how the pandemic accelerated the velocity of change and ushered in two profound transitions. First a revolution in relationship between individuals and organizations resulting in the empowered workforce and second, fifteen years of digital disruption transformed organizations from linear to complex. As a result of both, leaders can no longer be unquestioned experts driving productivity with fear and making decisions with certainty.