Business as unusual
For much of the past two years, our days (and many of our sleepless nights) have been filled with a desire to return to normalcy, to get back to business as usual. But the reality is that, in part due to the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in part due to the technological disruption that continually upends business models, and in part due to the force of climate change, it’s not a simple proposition to return to some status quo ante. More and more, our baseline assumption is that things have to continue to change—and rapidly. We may simply be in a mode in which the prevailing mindset is “business as unusual.” Major articles in this insight packed issue certainly speak to this new reality. In our cover story, “Reimagining…