7State of the World? Desperate as Usual

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Mike Tyson

The jabs, hooks, crosses, and uppercuts Mike Tyson endured and inflicted are nothing compared to the toll of a global pandemic, which is no ordinary disruption or crisis. Not now. Nor in 1918 during the “Spanish Flu” influenza epidemic, which, as it’s been estimated, took the lives of over 50 million people. While many companies and organizations have crisis plans for an active shooter, a financial free fall, fraud, or an extreme weather event, few have prepared for a global crisis of a deadly infectious disease. In uncharted waters — pandemics, climate change, growing economic disparity, racial tension, rising geopolitical hostilities, ...

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