4 Leadership Trends
In The New World
Of Work
Business leaders should be increasingly
flexible and agile in managing their workforces
By Shirish Nadkarni, Serial Entrepreneur & Author
The Covid-19 pandemic
upended the corporate
world in a matter of weeks last
year. Knowledge workers were
immediately forced to work
remotely. With the pandemic
still raging in the US, most large
fragile period for most companies
as business leaders may make
the mistake of operating with
a pre-pandemic mentality as
opposed to adapting to the reality
of a post-pandemic world. This
new world requires business
leaders to adopt new rules of
engagement and leadership skills
to interact with their workforce.
Enabling Employee
Autonomy
While working from home,
workers have enjoyed an
unprecedented level of autonomy
and flexibility in managing their
work. Business leaders had no
choice but to trust employees to
do their work in a manner best
suited to them. Fortunately, in
research conducted by Harvard
Business School Professor
Tsedal Neely, 70 percent of
companies reported higher
productivity for workers working
in a remote environment during
the pandemic.
companies haven’t yet asked their
employees to come back to work.
In fact, most companies have
adopted a hybrid work policy and
some like Twitter are allowing
their workers to work remotely
on an indefinite basis. This is a
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