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This is the pivot we’ve talked about
this year. Restaurants and stores
responded to the changing market
by offering curbside pickup and

adding creative incentives such as
cocktails to go. Personal service via
phone sales or greatly improved web
services drove sales. Forbes reports

that “This crisis reminded companies
that pivots are just as important to
other business functions. Shifting
from in-office to remote work — an

HR pivot — made it possible for
many companies to keep doing
business at all.” The pivot, the
improvisation, is what is fundamental.

Harvard Business Review asserts
that “Improvisation is in fact key
to organizational agility.” This
greater emphasis on collaboration

ultimately helps everyone gain the
social connectedness and creates
an environment of mutual trust
necessary to thrive.

SILVER LINING We arrive at the new normal. In the environment of connectedness, we
continue to work to make it better. Not just surviving under Maslow’s hierarchy,
but thriving. When we reflect on the times before the pandemic, we ask: Does
The Ultimate HyBrid—Work/Life
Balance: The pandemic has shown that everything have to be one way or the other? Can we envision holding space
we need balance to stay healthy and for two ways of being at the same time? Through our trial and error, we have
stress free. Anna Cox, a professor of learned we can craft the future. By taking the best of all the systems that we
human-computer interaction at UCL, have realized we admire and appreciate, and adding new workarounds and
defines Work/Life Balance as “feeling tricks that we’ve developed, we’ve created Hybrid. These hybrids are our new
in control of how you balance the
various demands of all aspects of life routines, perspectives, and ways of living that are evolving and improving as
to enable wellbeing and avoid illness.” HYBRID we continue to move forward with resilience.
It should involve “happiness, fulfilment
and job satisfaction.” While this hybrid MID-CHROMA COPPER
might need creativity to craft, the time WITH A SATIN GLOSS “IT ISN’T ALL OVER; EVERYTHING HAS NOT BEEN INVENTED;
has shown, it can be done. USING RED/GOLD 000WRS THE HUMAN ADVENTURE IS JUST BEGINNING.”

— GENE RODDENBERRY
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