"Skills for growth in a disrupting World" Carlos Sentís Session for IE Business School to African professionals
Last friday I had the privilege to deliver an online workshop to 30 african professionals with Ie Business School and African Family Firms on keys to respond to the current crisis, mindset, strategy, mental health, resources, the skills we will need and keys to acquire them as effectively as possible. If we were already living in a VUCA environment and a disrupting world where the convergence of new technologies were changing the market at an ever accelerating pace, the #Covid19 crisis is showing us that the only thing we can be sure about is that anything can change. Entire industries will collapse and most of us will need to find a way to adapt to constant disruption. We have the right to be afraid to change and to lose all we have fought for for so many years, and changing your career path, your sector, your business, acquiring a completely new set of knowledge and skills is not only scary but also very difficult to do. Companies and institutions demand less theory...