Unpredictable Leadership in The Covid-19 Crisis.
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Unpredictable Leadership in The Covid-19 Crisis.

A formal and Informal View of Leadership

Unpredictable Leadership during Pandemic.

In reality each situation and each activity which involves more than one person will have a leader, formally or informally. That is how we as a society or an economy are formed. There are more examples where leadership gets practiced beyond. The leadership is a time-based or an event-restricted function while in the formally and informally cases it is a full-time 24/7 engagement. In fact a way of life. So both must listen to each other when it comes to fighting something as deadly and as pervasive as Covid-19. Tactically and operationally you choose the most optimal and efficient but when it doesn’t go per plan the cost in lives is far bigger, just that the purpose is always higher and supreme. In Covid-19, the mission of a leader is to ‘save’ lives, not to lose them.

That is why some developing countries are lacking behind in order to control the spread of Pandemic. Because too many are falling to sickness and overwhelming the best-in-the-world health systems, killing many times more than what timely, correct and uncompromising decisions would have saved. Italy, France and Spain never wished to alter their lifestyles even when the pandemic had hit. The UK conceived wrongly and then got caught up in the two approaches — lock down or herd immunity — and lost precious time. It still has a very bad mix of the two in operation and thus continues to suffer badly. In each of these cases the disease has had a free run and is dictating its own terms. In aviation terms, these nations are behind the power-curve — they have lost control of their craft for which destruction is inevitable.

In case of China, South Korea and Singapore, their decisions were correctly timed, their judgments were right and they were fearless in their decisions; hence they lost far less people and far less became victims. They still lost people but mitigated the spread and the loss. When something holds you back from the right decision, or you begin to qualify your decision against common wisdom or proven experience, you are in the grey zone. You are indecisive and losing time fast, the disease overwhelms your decision-cycle reducing you to a paralysis of mind. And you fall behind the power-curve where destruction becomes inevitable.

During pandemic, organizations around the globe have demonstrated remarkable agility, changing business models literally overnight: setting up remote-work arrangements; offshoring entire business processes to less-affected geographies; initiating multi-company cooperation with employees across sectors. In each situation, the urgency for results prevailed over traditional bureaucratic responses.

It is evident by this Pandemic that “A crisis brings out the best in leaders.They set aside trivial grievances, band together for a shared purpose, and focus on helping others. But beneath the strategic choices and genuine care is fear, uncertainty, and exhaustion. Leaders must redistribute disrupted supply chains, enable a remote workforce, safeguard essential employees, and break bad news to employees, as well as maintain their own energy so that they can continue to inspire and motivate.

Some Active Leaders are listed below who were active during this time of Pandemic.

“A crisis brings out the best in leaders”.

→ PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG:

In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is also winning plaudits for an aggressive testing and tracing campaign that has kept the number of infections in the country low — about 1,000 cases since the beginning of the outbreak.

→ XI JINPING’S PRESIDENT CHINA:

His strategies carried out during the outbreak in China was praised and admirable. World are not taking examples and prevention methods from Chinese leaders.

→ GERMANY’S CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL:

Germany’s Chancellor said some 70 percent of her country’s population would contract the virus — a sober warning that stood in stark contrast to pronouncements from other politicians at the time. The country now ranks fifth among territories with confirmed cases — recording more than 80,000 infections — it has a much lower fatality rate than most.

→ SYED MURAD ALI SHAH :

The Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan. Considering the utmost hard work of Syed Murad Ali Shah and his activeness during the current outbreak of Corona virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) appreciated him and ranked him 4th position in best leading politician, in the act of corona virus eradication.

→ South Korea’s President Moon Jae, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele:

Are also receiving praise for similar decisive and transparent action.

→ TAYYAB ERDOGAN TURKEY PRESIDENT:

Responding to the growing number of domestic corona virus cases, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled measures to safeguard the nation’s economy while advising citizens to practice social distancing.

→ In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

P.M of Israel using a state of emergency over the pandemic to authorize intelligence services to step up surveillance of the public and to close down the country’s courts and public places.