"Country X has been lucky." "Nation Y has low population density." "Climate in tropical state Z has an impact."
Probably true, but then still:
#leadership
#strategy
#trust
#communications
massively influence a country's dealing with a #pandemic or a #crisis.
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Probably true, but then still:
#leadership
#strategy
#trust
#communications
massively influence a country's dealing with a #pandemic or a #crisis.
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Would countries have done better or worse with different #leadership and #strategy? I have NO DOUBT.
Key drivers like #leadership and #trust often seem underestimated or hard to grasp.
This is probably due to #complexity of the matter and that drivers are hard to measure.
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Key drivers like #leadership and #trust often seem underestimated or hard to grasp.
This is probably due to #complexity of the matter and that drivers are hard to measure.
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The drivers are all related:
#leadership ➡️ trust ➡️ successful execution of #strategy ➡️ empowered leadership ➡️ #trust
#Communications is the glue.
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#leadership ➡️ trust ➡️ successful execution of #strategy ➡️ empowered leadership ➡️ #trust
#Communications is the glue.
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E.g., sadly, #US ticks all boxes of poor handling.
#Leadership = downplaying and politicizing the virus. #Strategy = seems absent and is non-centralized. #Communications = extremely non-scientific and worse: misinforming.
#Trust and support = declining.
Leading to 👇
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#Leadership = downplaying and politicizing the virus. #Strategy = seems absent and is non-centralized. #Communications = extremely non-scientific and worse: misinforming.
#Trust and support = declining.
Leading to 👇
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Poor #leadership and #communications in the #US now even seems to include purposedly underreporting in #Florida. This massively undermines #trust in leadership:
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See also what #US mathematician and systems scientist @SafaMote of @UofMaryland states about reliability and strategy in this thread:
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The impact of drivers like #leadership and #strategy especially seems to become clear if you compare similar or neighbouring countries, e.g. #Finland, #Sweden, #Norway, #Denmark, where Sweden took a 'unique' #herdimmunity approach:
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Reputation can be lost rapidly. In April, #Sweden was the world's darling due to a distinctive strategy.
Now, following #transparency by experts and opposition (a good thing!) and high death toll, #trust in #leadership is declining rapidly.
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Now, following #transparency by experts and opposition (a good thing!) and high death toll, #trust in #leadership is declining rapidly.
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#Asia is a story on its own.
#Taiwan, #SouthKorea, #Hongkong, #Vietnam, #Singapore score well on all drivers. Most countries were proactive and took massive action.
Helped by centralized political systems, discipline, well-developed health care.
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theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
#Taiwan, #SouthKorea, #Hongkong, #Vietnam, #Singapore score well on all drivers. Most countries were proactive and took massive action.
Helped by centralized political systems, discipline, well-developed health care.
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theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
On 2 May I wrote below piece on countries' handling of the pandemic in terms of #leadership and #strategy. Most of it still holds.
A.o. #NewZealand, #Taiwan, #SouthKorea, #Austria, #Germany and countries in #EasternEurope did well.
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diederikheinink.com/post/the-decad…
A.o. #NewZealand, #Taiwan, #SouthKorea, #Austria, #Germany and countries in #EasternEurope did well.
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diederikheinink.com/post/the-decad…
This short @wef video by Professor @devisridhar (shared by @DrEricDing) on #strategy is great.
Basically her key message is:
"it's a strategic decision"
Let's hope countries learn and see how important 'the drivers' are.
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Basically her key message is:
"it's a strategic decision"
Let's hope countries learn and see how important 'the drivers' are.
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See @larrybrilliant's tweet on that 👆
