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Agility and compassion: That’s what leadership looks like in a Covid-19 world

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Leadership qualities. Picture: iStock
Leadership qualities. Picture: iStock

Leaders in a world forever changed by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic will have to demonstrate agility and compassion and have an excellent understanding of South Africa’s socioeconomic realities.

Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) faculty Professor Karl Hofmeyr told a recent Gibs Flash Forum that the current Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the real role of business, which is not to make money, but rather to add value and purpose to people’s lives.

Andile Sangqu, Gibs’ executive in residence and former vice president of the Minerals Council SA and executive head for Anglo American SA, said the current crisis has exposed the fault lines that already existed in the country and believes life as it was before the pandemic won’t return.

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