We are all striving to survive these VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) fraught and frightening times.  Covid has taken huge numbers of vibrant people.  The loss to families has been immense and devastating.  Companies have lost collective corporate memories, a hoard of rich experiences and real wisdom.  The survivors carry on, never assured they will not succumb too at some point.  Vaccinations proffer the opportunity to secure herd immunity and defeat the spread of the virus.  What next for those survivor leaders and what do they need to be working on for a post-pandemic world?   Own The Future Well organized leaders lead intentional lives.  What does that mean?  They have goals and plans and they calibrate and recalibrate their progress.  They are brutally buffeted, but not thrown totally off course by unpredictable, violent direction changes.  The ancients believed that their fate was not at their determination.  Many of our staff are still with the ancients on that one and are not leading intentional lives.  Many leaders have seen Covid throw the commerce rulebook right out the window, but their True North is still there.  Now is the time to work on the team and rebuild their belief in the future of the firm.  We need to reintroduce the idea of leading intentional lives for everyone in our crew.   The company Vision, Mission and the Values may need a real refresh thanks to the pandemic.  Knowing where you are going, clarifying what you do and who you are makes sense in a senseless pandemic. Now is a good time to work together and re-create these behavior drivers and help the team to become more intentional about their future prospects.  Probably no one could recite the old versions from memory anyway, so this time let’s make that possible.  If you cannot remember them, you won’t be living them.  How can we get all the important things which need to be included into a format which we can recite from memory, simply and easily?  This is a good problem for the team to work on together and reinforce the sense of ownership.   Craft Culture Every leader gets the culture they deserve.  Covid has brutally exposed the leaders who had failed to build a robust culture in their team.  Things break down when you don’t have good teamwork.  When we work in isolation, we can depend on others much more than when we are all together in the office.  Small tears in the fabric of cooperation became gaping wounds very quickly. Now is the opportunity to tune up the existing culture or to create an even better one.  When the culture weaknesses have been exposed, it becomes painfully  plain what needs to be done.    Unfortunately, leaders who have failed to unite the team during the pandemic will be unable to do much. Frankly, their credibility has been trashed.  What is the organisation’s plan for them – continued neglect, retraining, the axe or do nothing? The stronger leaders will have seen their team culture strengthen under their leadership and become a formidable weapon in the market.  As workplaces come out of the pandemic, it will be time for some serious weapon wielding.   Collaborators Will Win The strong, silent John Wayne hero type leader is too expensive.  The opportunity costs of not achieving collaboration critical mass cannot be denied.  Leaders have had to coagulate disparate team members working at home in isolation from each other, into a powerful collaborative team.  This melding process isn’t easy even when everyone can see and talk with each other every day in the workplace.  The exodus to our homes just adds that deadly dimension of separation that increases the leader’s difficulty of keeping it all together and going smoothly.   The business world is too complex today for any of us as leaders to imagine we can do it on our own.  We need 1+1=5 outcomes.  There is a lot of coordination grunt effort required, which is one reason why many leaders cannot pull it off.  Those who have managed it, can migrate