Some Will Come Out Stronger, Some Will Crash and Burn

Each month, Charles Araujo joins Cloud Wars Live for a recurring
segment known as “Araujo on Transformation.” Charlie is a
bestselling author who has three books to his name: “The Quantum
Age of IT,” “The Ecosystem Advantage,” and “Performance-driven
IT.” He is also an engaging speaker who will entertain and
challenge your audience. Charlie has a website called
www.charlesaraujo.com, and another called “The Institute for
Digital Transformation.”


Charlie says from his standpoint he’s not sure of exactly how
this is going to play out – and how much of this is truly
long-lasting, from an economic standpoint. Uncertainty, he says,
is certainly the big elephant in the room, and it’s really a
debilitating factor.


Charlie says the correlation he draws if you think about a sports
team or an elite military unit – that strategy is the secret
sauce. He says his father did work for military units and Navy
SEALs and watching them drill was utterly fascinating – because
they communicated so much with body language and signals that
were not even verbal.


Charlie says a restaurant chain in Chicago – a high-end
restaurant – saw that it was not business as usual and they
couldn’t do what almost every other restaurant in the country has
done, which is simply try to do their existing business. But now,
he says, they’re doing it all via delivery. They’ve rebuilt their
menu and changed their app.


Charlie says we are going to see a massive shakeout. And in the
end, some will come out of this so much stronger, and some will
just crash and burn.


His final thought is, if you’re an enterprise leader the biggest
mistake you could make would be to see this as temporary and just
wait it out. He says he thinks we’re at a point now where you
have a massive opportunity to use this time to experiment, to
play with ideas, and to allow your humanity to flow through.
There is a silver lining here if we choose to see it.





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