There is a controversial point of view arising: HR should have done more to prepare companies for the advent of COVID-19. “It’s not that HR should have known the pandemic was coming”, they explain. “But isn’t HR about developing new skills for the company?” Case 1: A company’s Executive Chairman belatedly wakes up to the...
Author: Francis Wade
When COVID-19 ruins your “perfect” strategic plan
While your company awaits a return to business as usual, should your leadership be thinking about revisiting its strategy? Does the current pandemic mean that you should start the process all over again? To say that the coronavirus has disrupted business is an understatement. Even if you are still operating at this time of lockdowns...
Why Your Kids Shouldn’t Migrate, But Stay to Run Your Business
If you own a company, should you encourage your children to one day take an ownership position? Or should they pursue a more lucrative career overseas? We Jamaicans need to challenge our habit of exporting the next generation. “My son is a pediatrician in New York.” There are few things that give a Jamaican parent more...