Big Leadership Decisions Coming Up? Take A Cheetah Pause

For many executives of health and human service organizations, the pandemic crisis has been a sort of suspended animation from strategy. Executive teams and managers have been “very busy” protecting the health of consumers and staff, expanding telehealth services, applying for relief and grant funding, and more. At the same time, these crisis management activities have resulted in putting long-term planning on hold. For some, being busy has been a great way to forestall making tough decisions.

But the crisis is slowly subsiding and the likely long-term “next normal” is coming into focus. And in the last quarter . . .