Here are a half dozen things I’m grateful for having ended 2020:
As a society, we joined forces, led capably by government and community leaders, to effectively eliminate COVID from our state and our country. Painful for some, but many of us believed it necessary.
Work assignments exploded owing to many clients wanting to rethink their strategy in light of COVID, and not wanting to make important decisions under unstated or untested assumptions.
Nearly everyone I know, from CEOs to my 11 year old son, learned a huge amount about their capabilities, under trying circumstances. I learned a lot about strategising digitally with groups — and now have a new toolkit to carry forward into 2021.
During lockdown, I made a deliberate decision to consume even more books than usual, and I ended the year with “Songlines: The Power and Promise” which explains indigenous systems of knowledge in terms a Western-educated person can grasp. It’s very readable and profound, all at once.
Shifting nearly all communications to video conference created an informality and an immediacy that enabled us to relate to each other with greater spontaneity, humour and joy.
I finally figured out how to work with a remarkable team of virtual assistants, so I learned the important lesson of what, and how, to delegate to people more skilled than myself. Thanks Fi and Vanessa!
Question: “What are you grateful for in this coming year?”