What bold predictions did not come to fruition in the post-pandemic world? — All the Way Leadership Blog

I drove home wondering when I would return to the office next. It was March 2020 and the pandemic was beginning. No big deal I thought to myself. It will probably last a few weeks at most. My prediction was off by years. In retrospect, it is embarrassing to acknowledge how clueless I was at the time. Like most people, I greatly underestimated the scale and complexity of the COVID-19 crisis. How were any of us supposed to know what would happen as this global debacle played out? Significant changes were coming fast and furious. The best most of us could do was try to maintain an optimistic outlook during this devastating disaster while making predictions about what would happen next.

We were in unchartered waters

Big challenges were around the corner for the entire world to navigate. There were no easy answers or simple solutions. No — it would take years of effort to get past the pandemic. Leaders did their best to display confidence even though they were completely naive regarding what would happen the next day. The amount of uncertainty all of us faced was…