What do you think?
Rate this book
Finding Light in the Darkness: How businesses, organisations and teams adapted to the pandemic, and the lessons for other challenges and crises
Whether you are part of a team, or a leader of an organisation or business, this book is intended to help you to reflect on the lessons from the pandemic. The lessons are applicable to future challenges and crises, including climate change.
During the pandemic, the Key & Co network worked with businesses, both small and large, public and private, across numerous industries and around the world. We were often tasked with helping them overcome their most pressing issues while also being “flies on the wall” as we observed how CEOs and leadership teams came to terms with the pandemic crisis. As a result, we learnt the factors that allowed businesses and organisations to adapt, survive and emerge stronger, effective leadership, purpose, innovation, agility, teamwork, decision-making, customer relationships, planning and resilience.
While the large global businesses were interesting, there was much more to learn from the experiences of smaller businesses and teams. These were the ones that were under the most extreme pressure. The ones that were pushed closest to the brink and therefore the ones that had to dig deepest to survive.
This book tells the story of eight of these. A baking company building an online training business, a European bank transforming itself through the crisis, a testing company growing from 0 to 1,300 employees in 18 months, a stand-up comedian, reliant on live venues, pivoting to writing books and zoom gigs, a global network, trapped in their home offices, a church leader becoming a beacon of hope with zoom services, an elite rowing squad overcoming the constraints of lockdown to win their big race, the chaplains that worked tirelessly to support seafarers who kept the world moving.
I hope you find the book not only interesting and thought-provoking but that you take some useful lessons from it as we all move on from the pandemic and face the next challenges.
During the pandemic, the Key & Co network worked with businesses, both small and large, public and private, across numerous industries and around the world. We were often tasked with helping them overcome their most pressing issues while also being “flies on the wall” as we observed how CEOs and leadership teams came to terms with the pandemic crisis. As a result, we learnt the factors that allowed businesses and organisations to adapt, survive and emerge stronger, effective leadership, purpose, innovation, agility, teamwork, decision-making, customer relationships, planning and resilience.
While the large global businesses were interesting, there was much more to learn from the experiences of smaller businesses and teams. These were the ones that were under the most extreme pressure. The ones that were pushed closest to the brink and therefore the ones that had to dig deepest to survive.
This book tells the story of eight of these. A baking company building an online training business, a European bank transforming itself through the crisis, a testing company growing from 0 to 1,300 employees in 18 months, a stand-up comedian, reliant on live venues, pivoting to writing books and zoom gigs, a global network, trapped in their home offices, a church leader becoming a beacon of hope with zoom services, an elite rowing squad overcoming the constraints of lockdown to win their big race, the chaplains that worked tirelessly to support seafarers who kept the world moving.
I hope you find the book not only interesting and thought-provoking but that you take some useful lessons from it as we all move on from the pandemic and face the next challenges.
107 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 30, 2023
1 person is currently reading
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.