A year of mastering change and adopting technology

As the new year unfolds, it gives rise to new hopes, new optimism. Year 2017 was very tumultuous. Globally we saw disturbances in Europe and America. UK bore brunt of terror attacks. USA saw many disturbances. Similarly, business environment tasted real VUCA times. In fact, VUCA has become near normal today. In India post demonetisation effect was followed by GST launch. Both these events had some immediate impact on the GDP growth. Although we know and understand both these steps mean good in long term but in short term we had a setback as GDP growth got stunted. Employment outlook hence became weaker. We also saw many job losses particularly in IT & Services sector. Employment outlook though now seems to come back to optimistic levels, but the trajectory needs to be picked up. In this tumultuous journey, organisations are facing many challenges. When VUCA times exist, nothing works as planned. In fact, you have to search solutions for problems that you don’t know off. How do you deal with this syndrome? How can CEOs and leadership...