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Disruption and uncertainty always create innovation and opportunity Recession. Depression. Economic meltdown. All such depressing words – but what if you are prepared to look past it to see Covid as an opportunity? Humans are like the tide, with bad news the water recedes, faster and faster, we find out who is swimming naked, then the tide comes back in and we all lie back on our boogie boards, sip our margaritas and wait for the next wave to take us in. Our media love the tide going out, they scream and shout, magnifying our fear levels, appearing like a dorsal fin beside us. Sadly, our media fail to question our leaders properly (what does the word eradication mean to you?) nor search out the truth, and forgo critical thinking to feed our negative emotions. Having been submerged in a crisis situation, we may become oblivious to what we just went through. Events like the GFC, Y2K, SARS (NZ death toll 19) whilst remembered, the lessons may be forgotten. Yet dissatisfaction, pressure and disruption
are at the ethos of success and growth on all levels, both professional and personal. You faced adversity in life, survived it and more than likely grew because of it. The real issue with Covid is how you choose to react. Many business owners, myself included, will have turned and examined their business, their costs structures, their clients, suppliers, bankers, staff – studying all aspects of their business and identified ways to adapt and improve. Many others have discovered that they or staff can work from home, balancing the pleasures of family with work and discovering new ways of achieving success. Others will look forward to returning to work and appreciate those social connections in a new world. Many parents will have connected with their children or partner on a new level, developing new ways of living as a family, walking as a family, and enjoying the increased exposure to nature. Others will have to find new careers or adventures to fill in time, develop new skills. Some will have experienced negative events
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as well, and perhaps Covid has exposed issues that we need to work on. You may not control the environment, but with any situation, you have complete power of how you react.
Michael McCook is the managing director of AccountabilityNet www.accountabilitynet.co.nz
