Lessons from Leading through Uncertain Times
summary
Company loses significant revenue in May–June 2020 and runs redundancies, triggers daily check-ins and preserved scrum rituals while shipping hardware home; hybrid rules force “everyone on Zoom” and cause fatigue. Leadership executes a six‑week handover for a six‑month leave, then replans re‑entry (no simple slot‑back) and builds a new support engineering department from scratch. Ongoing tactics include AMAs, a Step Challenge and mental health 1–10 scores for regular check‑ins.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:38Lockdown one: Initial response
- 8:35Return to office and hybrid work
- 14:24Leadership transition part one
- 28:33Leadership transition part two
- 40:17Lockdown two and final takeaways
- 45:56Q&A session
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