3 Strategy Modes That Make Your Organization Antifragile

Ensure that vigilance and agility are part of organizational DNA

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Most organizations are poorly equipped to weather a major crisis, let alone re-imagine their strategy mid-flight.

Those organizations fortunate enough to make it through COVID-19 (or even smaller-scale events in the future) will have found creative new ways of working that are remote, secure, and cost-optimized. Making it through and being successful on the other side of the crisis requires pivots to strategy. There are three modes to this:

1. Crisis Mode: laser-focused “crunch” period of keeping the lights on and positioning just enough for long-term, post-crisis success.
2. Transitional Mode: the reflective and interim passage out of crisis to a better, more resilient state.
3. Emergent Mode: today’s new steady-state — taking lessons learned from the crisis and also evolving strategy as additional circumstances require.

3 Strategy Modes — During & After Crisis

In #1, this is about battening down the hatches and getting hyperfocused on escaping the crisis in a satisfactory state. Then you can get…