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COVID-19 A study referenced in the popular magazine Psychology Today concluded that it takes an average of 66 days for a behavior to become automatic. If that’s true, that’s good news for business leaders who have spent the past five months running their companies in ways they never could have imagined.  The COVID-19 pandemic is a full-stop on business as usual and a launching pad for organizations to become virtual, digital-centric and agile — and to do it all at lightning-fast speed.   Now, as leaders look ahead to the next year and beyond, they’re asking: How do we keep this momentum going?  How do we take the best of what we’ve learned and put into practice throughout the pandemic, and make sure it’s woven into everything we do going forward? “Business leaders are saying that they’ve accomplished in 10 days what used to take them 10 months,” says Kate Smaje, a senior partner and global co-leader of McKinsey Digital. “That kind of speed is what’s unleashing a ...

PUBLISHED WED, SEP 9 202010:09 PM EDT KEY POINTS The cost of a U.S.-China “decoupling” would be high, but that does not mean Beijing will not choose to create systems that are “mutually exclusive” from the rest of the world,, said Robert Daly of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. “There is a real danger of China and ... much of the rest of the world developing separate financial systems for things like payments of international debts and payments for trade,” he said. Daly also said that talk of decoupling from the U.S. is “more than just campaign rhetoric” from the Trump administration. for further information click here: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/china-could-develop-systems-that-are-separate-from-the-world-expert.html