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{{freeessay|work|working from home|{{image|sheeple|jpg|''Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheeple? {{vsr|1959}}}}}}As the inquest into what the politicians did and did not get right with COVID, the rest of the world is making its own assessment: what to make of it all? What can we learn? How do we do things differently? In its , abrupt dislocation, lockdown was a sort of miniature [[Burgess Shale]] —  a sudden, dissonant punctuation in a long, flowing, paragraph of commercial consensus. A rare chance to “beta-test” alternative ways of conducting commercial activity. It would be a shame to waste it, or pay no heed to the lessons it offers.  
{{freeessay|work|working from home|{{image|sheeple|jpg|''Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheeple? {{vsr|1959}}}}}}As the inquest into what the politicians did and did not get right with COVID rumbles on, the rest of the world is making its own assessment: what to make of it all? What can we learn? How do we do things differently? In its , abrupt dislocation, lockdown was a sort of miniature [[Burgess Shale]] —  a sudden, dissonant punctuation in a long, flowing, paragraph of commercial consensus. A rare chance to “beta-test” alternative ways of conducting commercial activity. It would be a shame to waste it, or pay no heed to the lessons it offers.  


As seismic changes do, COVID came out of a clear blue sky. Not one [[change manager]] was ready or, as it turned out, even needed. The world just ''changed''. No strategies needed presenting, not consultants were engaged, no [[business continuity plan]]s were invoked. There was not time.  
As seismic changes do, COVID came out of a clear blue sky. Not one [[change manager]] was ready or, as it turned out, even needed. The world just ''changed''. No strategies needed presenting, not consultants were engaged, no [[business continuity plan]]s were invoked. There was not time.