Leadership In The Time Of Covid: Should We Really Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater?

[ ]we contend that how corporations define great leadership in their company need not change for the sake of change itself based on COVID-19, particularly if the models are based on theory, research, and detailed validation efforts [ ]one could argue everything we do, from a human resource (HR) and TM perspective, has been targeted for review and change Because the nature of the pandemic is so unique to our current experience, senior leaders and HR professionals are looking to external sources of information to help guide their decision-making [ ]recent internal employee surveys show positive employee responses to the pandemic around PepsiCo values and the shift to remote work [ ]we encourage our colleagues to apply a broader systems thinking lens (e g , Katz \u0026 Kahn, 1978) to their HR and TM efforts in light of the pandemic, considering what we already know about existing constructs and phenomena (including their stability across time and circumstance) as well as what practices we already implement