Creating Profound Business Innovation

COVID 19 could bring a profound or notable transformation in how Americans spend, save, and invest their money; how businesses function; and how people engage. The impact of COVID 19 could reverberate for decades. Some predict that it will be like the Great Recession of 2008. Others draw comparisons to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Are either one of these accurate comparisons? We know for sure that we are in an economic, social, and political crisis. We will explore with our conversationalist: The way forward for Main Street, the social-political economic nuances necessary to carve out effective pathways to recovery, and whether there are conceptual roadmaps that hold the key to reimagining a thriving US workforce and economy.Show Topics and HighlightsHow do we support businesses and potential growth phases?“We were able to bring together 49 strangers from across the world who had a common purpose.”“We're interested in the kinds of stories that in what we call wicked problems that are actionable.”The single most consensus oriented response of the of the whole seven day sprint was around one idea . . . be a better leader. “As African Americans historically know, we've always been under pressure in a lot of different ways. And it's just like another opportunity to see how resilient are we as a people.”The inertia of the old normal is the biggest obstacle to the new normal.Think about what would happen if you replace the word “the” with the word “a”.“You can improvise out of structure, you can't improvise when the entire environment is improvising like it is now.”This is the environment that's ripe for innovation to occur. People are definitely going to rise and innovate. Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.