Is the Pandemic a New Normal?

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This year we've seen some stumbles by some big name companies in their performance. Are there lessons for entpeners in these set? There are. When you're in volatile times, like we are right now, you have continuing new asteroid debris revirberations and so forth. I think that volatility continues to be increasing, and is increased by the pendemic.

“We should expect more volatility,” Reid Hoffman tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian in the first Need to Know session of the year, covering news and business topics impacting entrepreneurs right now. Reid and Bob discuss the implications of the Ukraine invasion, then dive into the pandemic-fueled troubles at Peloton, PayPal, and Meta, new climate-change urgencies — including Reid’s recent trip to Antarctica, and how Activision will be different after merging with Microsoft. Plus: pay transparency; the lessons of Theranos; and the business case for democracy. Cameos: John Doerr (author of Speed & Scale), Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust), Daniella Ballou-Aares (Leadership Now Project).

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