Concluding part 3 of our ‘Shaping our future post COVID-19’ series, we review the three leadership approaches that are currently playing out in market; protecting, progressing, or stuck in the in-between. Acknowledging the scale of disruption to strategic plans and horizons, Maximus Directors are joined by Founder and former Director of Flight Centre’s UK operation Mandy Johnson, and now author of two acclaimed books, Winning the War for Talent and Family Village Tribe – The Evolution of Flight Centre where they talk to the potency of developing and exercising foresight in the coming periods, and the criticality of a strong North Star to navigate.
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