Crisis Leads to Invention

Many folks are conversant in stories about how American GI’s kept trucks and jeeps rolling during war II, even when spare parts weren’t available. won't to tinkering with jalopies in their garages, the young soldiers were ready to jury rig fixes with whatever materials were available.

When we reminisce on the present health crisis, there’s little question that we’ll learn that it resulted during several innovations: new drugs and medical devices, improved healthcare processes, manufacturing and provide chain breakthroughs, novel collaboration techniques.
One of the key leadership challenges in day-to-day organizational life is inspiring engagement and generating energy toward the goals of the organization.

During a crisis, there is often a huge spike in energy present within the workforce. Leaders who can appropriately focus the energy of their workforce toward a transparent purpose in resolving the crisis will typically find quite just a deep wellspring of energy and discretionary effort. They are going to often experience a wave of latest ideas, as individuals feel compelled to share insights they normally would keep to themselves. for instance, the Apollo 13 mission to the moon that was upended by an explosion on board forced NASA engineers to improvise to save lots of the crew. Under the famous leadership dictate, “Failure isn't an option,” the engineering team successfully rallied to style a makeshift device to wash the air of CO2 therefore the astronauts could survive the trip home, using only items available to the crew onboard the lunar excursion module. Some say that courage is defined as when purpose overcomes fear. In this way, the crisis can create the organizational courage to require actions in support of a purpose that might be unthinkable in times of calm.

By: Jyoti Nayak

School Name: Birla School, Pilani