Allan Leighton is one the UK’s most successful leaders. He has been chairman of Asda, Selfridges, Royal Mail and now at the CO-OP. Allan has famously asked why the boards of FTSE100 do not have more focus on execution of strategy. So many of the top 100 hundred executives in top companies are focused on strategy. That is important of course but Allan argues that nothing changes until we actually “crack on” and do something.

How do we make sense of where we are now, when the traditional ways of doing so have been so massively disrupted by the Pandemic? Trend data does not make sense, some disruption is temporary, some is here to stay – but can you confidently predict your next chapter for your organisation? Yet understanding where we are is an important step in taking advantage of the opportunity you see. This week we want to explore how to understand where we are “Right here, right now.”