COVID-19 and the Initial UK Pandemic
Storytelling the Trajectory of COVID-19
One of the reasons for doing this book was to help CEOs and their Directors to navigate hard-to-foresee events that could cause unforeseen disruption. Aside from the credit crunch fueled by dodgy lending, monetary largesse, unwise innovations in securities, and so on, the obvious example was COVID-19, which appeared as a “weak signal” in the West in very early 2020.
I recall beginning to think in February 2020 that this could be very serious in its impact. Years earlier, bird flu in the Far East was a threat and had been a near miss in terms of wreaking havoc on society and business. We had a narrow escape as it withered away without taking off. So, when ...
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