Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization Is Now a Startup

The novel coronavirus is not just something for leaders to “get through” for a few days or weeks. Instead, it is an economic and cultural blizzard, winter, and beginning of a “little ice age” — a once-in-a-lifetime change that is likely to affect our lives and organizations for years.

April 1, 2020
Guest Writer

By Andy Crouch, Kurt Keilhacker, and Dave Blanchard

We’re not going back to normal. If you’re a leader in an organization, it is time to rewrite your vision deck — that presentation so many organizations have that summarizes who you are, whom you serve, why you serve them, and what you do and how you do it.

In this essay we will explain why we think that for most organizations — businesses, nonprofits, and even churches — this is a time to urgently redesign our work in light of what we believe is not just a weeks-long “blizzard,” not even just a months-long “winter,” but something closer to the beginning of a 12–18 month “ice age” in which many assumptions and approaches must change for good. Almost all of us can and should keep the first three or four slides in our deck; everything else needs to be re-evaluated.

Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization Is Now a Startup

Guest Writer