Big opportunity in this Covid 19 pandemic  should not be undermined…

 Mankind was never threatened as much now, not even in World War -1 and World War -2. Corona Virus has suddenly engulfed entire world with severe health issues to economic downturn and subsequent many other hazards are expected. No air, No train, and No taxi – all stopped abruptly, everyone is forced to be inside their houses on minimal means, no cinema, no mall, no visit to friends, socialization, ceremonies all come to sudden halt. Is this nature hard wrath on human? It wants to teach lesson to set things in right which were going wrong.

Few days back we have been talking on Global warming, excessive fossil oil consumption, severe pollution in most cities of India & Asia. People were passively dying due to pollution related diseases, there numbers were only increasing, God knows where we would have gone…….. rough estimates that it would have been around over 4-6 million people in world dying due to respiratory diseases linked to polluted air. Equally the polluted water, other infectious diseases, stress related disorder due to over stretching around – list will be endless it is only to estimate that many million lives were already getting lost.  It was the rat race – aimlessly people were running around without thinking as where they were going.

Corona virus has made things halted; gave entire world a pause, and time to seriously introspect. Undoubtedly, it is time to fight with VIRUS first then set economy back on track before getting things back to normal, it will be taking time. However, it is important that world must see this all with BIG opportunity, take new initiatives, bring sharp changes. Can we fast stop using fossil oil for energy, find out BIG opportunities in new sources of solar & wind energy, non-polluting electrical vehicles, reduce unnecessary travel- build culture work from home, high level hygienic values reducing infectious diseases, focus on immunity & health needs. These all like setting new normal for everyone – these are the opportunity to seriously change the way we approach our life.

This shock has given an opportunity to rethink more effective ways.

Organization leadership must assert heavily with the changing needs. Optimization of available resources, cutting cost of unviable efforts & activities, all these will be required to restart business and gradually build momentum. Everyone cooperation and support are enviable restart; organizations will have to take decision in best long terms interest of business for survival whether it is small or big it doesn’t matter. Corona pandemic has taken many lives and expected that many more will go in coming days, our best homage / tribute to resting souls will be that we learn fast, we change fast and adopt the new normal.

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Siddharth Paramhans

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