Stuart Broadley, CEO, Energy Industries Council, wrote an interesting article about the new world after the first COVID-19 epidemic. He permitted Ocean Energy Resources to publish same.
The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has quickly eclipsed other recent epidemics and market crises in both size and scope. In addition to the deadly human toll and the disruption to millions of people’s lives, the economic damage is already significant and far-reaching.
According to health professionals the way forward to reduce uncertainty is already set – the virus is still dangerous and infectious, and cases are only reducing because of lockdown. It’s not going to go away any time soon, and the old ways are gone for the foreseeable future.
Don’t take the risk of meeting new clients face-to-face if you’re not suitably prepared, while clients are still scared of meeting strangers. Imagine how easy it would be to break trust with a key decision-maker if you embarrassed them into a face-to-face meeting they were not happy to attend, feeling that you come from a country with high infection rates, especially, if they don’t know you.