Interview

January 6, 2021

Leadership after Covid: upgrade please

After 2020 and the Covid-19 crisis, management handbooks as well as corporate tech need an upgrade, Klaxoon’s boss says.


Klaxoon.

Beyond the winners and losers of Covid-19, there’s one thing all companies lost in 2020: their ability to draft multi-year strategies and plan methodically for the long-run.

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A portrait of Klaxoon founder Matthieu Beucher
A portrait of Klaxoon founder Matthieu Beucher. Credit: Klaxoon.
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