The world leaders who have been most effective have either been women, suc h as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, or are men taking a page from this leadership model, suc h as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The leadership and management that are proving most effective in this crisis – collaboration, resourcefulness, communication, listening, building coalitions of diverse points of view and expertise, transparency – has historically been associated with how women lead. Women’s rights were being chipped away at one-by-one by legislation and oppressive cultural mores were returning. Leadership and management: The way women lead was (still) being undervalued and dismissed as “too soft” or second-rate in many powerful circles. Everyone is struggling in their own way through this pandemic and it’s humanizing, equalizing.ĥ. Authenticity: With literally everyone working from home and only “seeing” each other on Zoom or Skype, how we look, what we wear, and the usual vanity concerns are out the window. We miss seeing people in person, and we will again soon enough, but we are learning to create connection in other meaningful ways.Ĥ. “Essential”: Where we once dismissed people who bag our groceries, or drive our kids’ school buses, for example, now we realize they are “essential workers.” Where once we “needed” to go out to dinner, to meet with a client or prospect, now we realize we can accomplish what we need to virtually. GettyĪs countries share ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE) to save lives today, we see Fuller’s vision in real time.ģ. The abstract patterns and colors of a geodesic dome under a blue sky with a slight puff of cloud.

Kuhn paradigm shift