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Leadership in times of change

Every company is impacted by this virus. Here are some high level ways
1. Their business model revolves around gatherings of people and they can't afford to continue.
2. Users can't work remote or companies remote work is not mature enough.
3. Service industry but there is no one to service.

These are some of the big impacts I see due to Covid but every company is impacted.  There will be companies hurt and set back financially but there will be others that innovate and pivot.  This isn't a time to be slow and methodical but experiment, take risk and agile.  Companies should be hype focused and not distracted by low value items, put them on hold.  Focus on high value objects even more than ever.  Hyper focus and fast to react.  

Leadership should be communicating their priorities and plans, even if they don't directly impact everyone on the team.  Don't leave people in the dark.  You never know when that engineer or ops person has an idea that could save lives, jobs or change your company.

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