White Paper by Ahli Moore and Dr. Kim Hires
The white paper “Leading After the Crisis” by Moore and Hires focuses on the unique challenges leaders face during the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights the necessity for leaders to adapt to both local and global contexts, recognizing the pandemic’s long-term nature.
It includes responses from both mid-level (38%) and senior level (62%) leaders across various industries like finance, education, healthcare, and more. A significant portion of these leaders manage businesses with revenues ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion. The paper categorizes the challenges into Safety, Workforce, Revenue, and Leader Support, noting that 77% of leaders felt prepared for post-crisis challenges. Interestingly, the analysis revealed a similarity between challenges during the crisis and those anticipated afterward, raising concerns about leaders’ understanding of the evolving nature of work and necessary support in a post-COVID world. The similarity of these challenges to those identified in the Gartner 2019 CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey further underscores this concern.
The paper has three goals: identifying leaders’ main challenges during the crisis, understanding their primary challenges post-crisis, and examining if senior and mid-level leaders share similar COVID-19-related challenges. The authors’ extensive experience in corporate leadership, consulting, and coaching informs their approach to gather insights from leaders to develop effective and sustainable post-crisis leadership strategies.