Today's gloom a glimpse of a melancholic tomorrow, lending a cup full nostalgia of my lovable yesterday. Lockdown a militarist approach that instills recalcitrant behavior in some. Worse made by recall doses of extensions that are injected by clueless leaders who are only eyeing profits over our well-being.
The pulsating throb we used to experience of economic opportunities now a song sung in reversed reverb. The now catchphrases are sanitization, fumigation, inoculation, herd immunity, social distancing, vaccine, stay at home, vaccine passports, and the likes, that have suddenly changed the way we live and do business.
What lockdown does is the enforcement of a new world order. Post this pandemic, the behavior won't be the same. What we used to do socially and commercially will be a brand new exercise. One thing I can't wait to see though is the mushrooming of new industries resulting from a sponge squeeze of niche markets lying untapped. I don't anticipate a host of them but a sure variety. Remember that in every downturn there's a chance of making money from downtrend losses better than in uptrend gains. And also that, 'post-depression an ocean to a drowsy eye, but an untapered perennial stream to a wakeful eye' [1].
The downside of it all is the rapid growth of joblessness. Many companies won't manage to get back to their levels of prior to the pandemic. Some creativity will be sought to revive the economy with a mind open to the need for new markets generation and new business models that will align with those trending developments.
There will be new and version updates to courses in academia and to lawmaking as well to curl into the snug of new industries. New courses and modules to respond to the new order a necessity that'll bring uniform standards and legislative measures. As for some industries, a wave of reform will be in phase-out of their existence driven by peddled transformation, thus extinction of job security for others who qualified solely for that defunct industry. This, saying to us that it'll be wise to employ a versatile workforce, meaning either a person academically qualified at more than one fraternity, or a person experienced in a specific industry and but academically qualified in another, or be a person with a multi-faceted academic qualification.
A game-changer for those going to school going forth, and a sorry state for those recently graduated in soon to be defunct industries. Executives should too wise up by using this window period to start saving and planning for refresher courses and upskill courses to put them at the fore when the revolution kick starts. 2020 should be declared a global gap year and pity so seems to be 2021.
In conclusion: 'readiness a dying breed to the aging preparedness convict' [2]. Saying that you're getting ready for post-Covid-19 an understated lateness. Be in already, that's the only way your mind will start waking to opportunities of an early start tomorrow. The pandemic is in its late hours, so, don't idle in waiting for what's to be come tomorrow. People are raring to launch tomorrow morning and those who'll start planning by then will be off-railed by those launching mid-morning and midday, thereafter latecomers painted as nothing more than nympholeptic followers.
[1, 2] by KgeleLeso
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