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title: "The Future Belonged To Those Who Were Fast. It’s Now Faster!"
canonical: https://jimcarroll.com/2022/02/the-future-belonged-to-those-who-were-fast-its-now-faster/
updated: 2022-04-01T10:49:19+00:00
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# The Future Belonged To Those Who Were Fast. It’s Now Faster!

The business world changed with Covid. Here’s what we saw:

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- 10 years of change in 6 months

- Major trends accelerated

- Organizations learned something new about speed

- Agility and flexibility became a necessity

- Business models shifted faster

- An attitude that ‘it can’t be done’ was shattered by necessity

- Decision making paralysis was obliterated

- The slow structure common to organizations was put under a microscope

- Old barriers to new ideas disappeared

- “Get it done” became the rallying cry

![](https://jimcarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CovidIsAnAccelerant.jpg)

The key issue for everyone now is – how do we sustain the momentum?