How to bridge a significant skills gap in national workforces? Governments need to play a more strategic role, starting with three key interventions.
New York and Miami, Dubai and Cairo, the Bay Area and Austin. Pandemic-era migrations have created strong new connections between cities — and companies need to update their location strategy to keep up.
In a world of complexity, uncertainty, and scarcity, public agencies need to move beyond “strategy as planning” as the default, choose their strategic approaches based on the requisites of their environment, and use strategy to bridge the gap between policy and implementation.
“As humans, we have a tendency to think fast – we really like to take our first thought and run with it. This causes us to act very spontaneously. In management, that’s a huge problem […]. You need to slow down first and think about what it is you're doing. […] And then you can move fast – and that is also key to success [because] the longer a project is, the more risk it is exposed to, including black swan risks.”
What governments should learn from their own success stories in responding to Covid-19.
Governments and companies must find new ways to collaborate if they are to solve the big multigenerational challenges, such as poverty, inequality, and climate change.
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