The pandemic certainly intensified the fear of many, but my book suggests that fear was increasingly spreading around the world well before the pandemic emerged – at the highest levels of organizations, on the front lines and out in the community.
We are in the early stages of a Big Shift where long-term forces are re-shaping our global economy and society. These forces are creating mounting performance pressure for all of us. Competition is intensifying on a global scale – for companies and for individuals. Individuals are increasingly worried about their jobs being taken away by robots or by employees in lower-wage countries. The pace of change is accelerating – things we thought we could count on are no longer there. And, as if that weren’t enough, the global connectivity we have created enables small events in some far away place in the world to quickly cascade into extreme, disruptive events that leave us scrambling to figure out what to do – dare I mention pandemic?
That’s a lot of pressure and, given the forces at work, the pressure will continue to intensify over time.
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