Available as an e-book (right on this site) or paperback (from Amazon).
HOW will your post-pandemic landscape look?
Your post-COVID operating — and strategic, longer-term — environment is still taking shape. Even though there finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel, many uncertainties remain, and this means that things can still change — and possibly quite a lot. Costs and supply chains. Politically imposed restrictions. Attitudes, expectations, and behaviors. The very nature of how an organization works and its people are managed and motivated. The areas of our lives that have been touched by COVID are endless, and they may all have a continuing impact on your future. Are you confident that you know how your landscape will look in a year or two?
My new, highly focused handbook can help you answer this big question for your organization, by showing you an approach for foreseeing possible outcomes and understanding their implications — regardless of whether you are a large corporation, tiny start-up, a not-for-profit outfit or educational institution, or are operating in the private or public sector… virtually any type of organization that wants to thrive in its emerging terrain.
“SEE YOUR NEW NORMAL:
A How-To Guide to Excelling in Your Post-COVID Future Using Scenario Planning”
This very practical, hands-on guidebook takes you through the structured process of generating and understanding the post-pandemic business landscape you could realistically find yourself operating in, as we put the pandemic behind us. Using lots of real-life examples, it elaborates on the scenario planning methodology I use in in-company workshops around the world, as described here.
Download it here — and you can already be reading it 2 minutes from now!
“See Your New Normal” is also available on Amazon at this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095N6Y39S, where you can also purchase it in a paperback edition, printed on demand and mailed to you without delay. Delivery is surprisingly quick!
I’m also happy to announce that the book has been translated into German (Erkenne Deine Neue Realität), French (Découvrez Votre Nouvelle Normalité), and Spanish (Visualiza Tu Nueva Normalidad). All of these editions can be acquired here as e-books, or if you prefer a paperback format, on Amazon (click on the book title below to go to the respective Amazon page):
DECOUVREZ VOTRE NOUVELLE NORMALITE
Why a 2nd book? Why now?
To be sure, my first book is also a practical guide to this technique, including an extensive discussion of the rationale behind this way of long-term thinking.
But thanks to COVID, we are in a unique situation now, one that I believe calls for a new, very focused “how-to” handbook. I aim to show you how to get the benefits of scenario planning, which is normally applied to a time horizon of 8 or 10 years, by using the approach to meet the short-term need — a very urgent need, in my opinion — to foresee the big changes that COVID may still bring about in just the next year or two.
The reasoning is simple. Since early 2020, we have been living through a period of almost unimaginable transformation. Literally everything has been affected by COVID (or to be more precise: by our ongoing reaction to it). And more reactions and news and information seem to be coming all the time, which means that your future business landscape has not yet taken its final shape; it continues to evolve. Visualizing how your company’s specific post-pandemic “New Normal” terrain might look and feel could not be more important. Such foresight can give you a chance to plan for the new lay of the land, and identify opportunities and challenges that could realistically emerge in different near-term scenarios. And by “near-term”, I mean just that: next year, or the year after.
Foreseeing these possibilities means you can prepare for them, rather than react to them. With this book, you’ll learn step-by-step how to do this, by seeing YOUR “New Normal” more clearly.
“See Your New Normal” and its Spanish, German, and French editions