Let's Pause>>>>
What happens the day after lockdown?
- Will we demonstrate the kindness we showed to one another when our lives were under threat?
- Will parents protect the quality family time that kids yearn for?
- Will we clap for our national heroes, our health service providers, our NHS?
- Will we applaud our essential workers, the postman, dustbin men, cleaners, and supermarket workers?
- Will firms in the UK who benefitted from the furlough program dip into their shareholders' pockets to save their staff from redundancies?
- Will businesses who received the government's business interruption loan, maintain their services and pay firms in their supply chain mostly the ForgottenLtd, who had no subsidy, to support them and avoid these firms going under?
- Will we see more diverse employees in senior leadership positions and reflect fairer employment practices?
- Will CEOs be more transparent about their hiring and promotion policies – will they publish their pay data?
- Will those who sit on investment committees deploy capital in a fairer way to under-represented groups?
- Will ESG matter at all when deciding what to invest in? Will we protect our climate?
- Will black lives matter? Will we introduce black history into the school curriculum to have a more equitable understanding of OUR British history?
- Will new habits, new promises stick?
The real test comes afterwards, when the majority forget, they'll walk away as if these unprecedented events never happened but there will be a remnant who will plough through, who stay behind to tidy up?
"So too, at the present time, there's a remnant chosen by grace"
Will you be one of the chosen? if we each pick just one of the 12 calls to action and commit to seeing it through, the change will come!
Great questions to guide and keep us all accountable.
Some very and pertinent questions! We can be eternally optimistic that there will be tangible change but this will take much effort and a multi-faceted response from different stakeholders and in our personal choices. Refreshing that leaders like yourself are asking these questions 😊. The eternal optimist in me is hopeful. So far, I have read of IKEA in talks with govt on how they can pay back for the financial assistance they have received to your point 5. A couple of other questions I have to add to your 12 is whether executives will still be required to travel across continents as in first and business class for one day meetings at the expense of our environment and their health? Will working from home still be frowned upon given that for the past 3months employees at all levels have successfully done just that to keep business operations going?
Let's hope that at the very least we maintain our compassion and empathy.
👍🏽Good points. Especially so we don’t slip into selective amnesia, post-Covid so as to ensure an equitable society.