The extreme abnormal is now the new normal; across the world, the pandemic affecting hundreds of millions small medium businesses but soon will come back with double the bounce, because the billion plus displaced workers may never go back to their previous mandates. The technology revolutions and national mobilization of entrepreneurialism will create quantum leaps in growth of these new SME creations. Government agencies already mandated to foster economic growth, will highly appreciate acquiring the new well-framed narratives with special skills on mobilization to tackle such mammoth challenges and downstream right guidance.
The Mastery of Covidism; the fine art of understanding tactical battlefields of economies, now the science of national mobilization to uplift productivity and performances are new gifts from pandemic recovery. Observe the sudden rise and fall of present economic leaderships, around the world, the new policies, executions and new thinking on economic development models. The silent revolution of grassroots prosperity has arrived. The billion displaced are restless. The economic progress of any nation is now in the hands of small medium business mobilization within any nation. Economic development thinking must get coordinated with new deployments.
The big business will always remain big; however, small businesses of any nation are now the true and real voice of the new pandemic recovery economy. Equally, over-taxing big businesses and super-rich will never solve the economic problems in any nation. Fair and equal justice will do, but what will solve the grassroots prosperity is the brand new thinking of placing small medium business issues at the very top of the national economic policies. Abandoned and crushed by big bureaucracies and big businesses; the small medium enterprises have suffered enough, now gradually, gifted by unlimited free technologies, upskilling and reskilling on productivity, performance and exportability the world of SME is different. Nevertheless, nation-by-nation, today, it is more about upskilling all the top front line gatekeepers already mandated to foster the nation’s small medium business economies.
Million Job Creation Strategies
The difficult question: Are cities and national regions ready for national mobilization of entrepreneurialism? Are national Chambers and top trade associations in agreement on upskilling small medium enterprises? Is there a nation-by-nation agenda to quadruple innovative excellence and exportability? How skilled are local leaderships of agencies on such national-global deployments? How simultaneous synchronization uplifts, up skills of 10,000 to 1000,000 SME on a fast track basis? How these issues are not new funding hungry, they are execution starved, and so what is stopping? How a national umbrella created via Live Roundtable discussions and streamed to 1000, or 100,000 stakeholders will shape the future of any nation?
Warm facts and cold realities; 50% downtowns of the world will not survive, 50% of office towers will go empty, 50% of office workers will work remote, 50% retail shops will not survive, 50% SME will not reopen, 50% economies may lose a decade during recovery. We still wait for a G20 meeting. Why are there no such open umbrella discussions on these global calamities? Why does everyone focus on their own vertical markets, ignoring global landscape and inter-relationships? Who is hiding what from whom?
Mastery of National Mobilization: Three Quick Tests
Test One: New challenges demand new vision. Real, proven and deeply experienced entrepreneurialism needed for mobilization, no room for certificates from some university. Global exposure needed for collaborative engagements with soft-power-management skills needed to optimize abundance of opportunities already at hand. Here tactical battlefield formation training needed to make all goals work harmoniously. Old bureaucracies isolated. These are extremely differenttimes where economic clocks have stopped.Marshall Plan style execution with Mastery of Covidism is in order;desperate economies must create “some” activity to all working citizens. Like upskilling, something to engage the displaced, either paid or unpaid, but something worthy and of creative value, something to occupy and explore future options.
The recent models of pushing overflow of business degrees, while governments funding dying industries have failed. Similarly, the extensive creation of Public funded large Super-high-tech Clusters only create selective innovation and Intellectual Property, either folded in archives or delivered to exclusive players in exclusive regions but do not trickle down at national grassroots prosperity levels. The decimated landscapes under shiny cities of the world speak volumes.
Deployments: Based on size of economy,identify 10,000 or 1,000,000 high potential small and midsize enterprises within a region or nation; adopt blueprints on mobilization agenda to quadruple their performance on innovative excellence and exportability. Caution- not to confuse with bulk government-data rather this is an assembly of ultra-modern-digitalization and upskilling on exportability.
Test Two: Fill skill gaps at all frontline teams on economic development mandates. To declare nationwide grassroots prosperity as top priority; redefine, SME globalization, reevaluate decimated Middle-Classes, and recognize elimination of midsize manufacturing sprinkled across towns and cities in most nations as critical for restoration. This demands major shifts in core competencies and new mentality. Proven expertise needed on mobilization to deliver upskilling, reskilling and lifelong learning all achieved in simultaneous synchronization across all key vertical growth and all job creation sectors.
Deployments: Deploy digitization of all top national trade associations and all chambers of commerce to upgrade to global displaying their entire membership on upskilling with global access. Caution–not to confuse with old websites; this is more like LinkedIn format, colorful and highly interactive platforms.
Test Three: Global-age thinking and accessibility: Comfort levels needed on all local, national, global zoomerang culture with in-depth articulation to debate and advance desired goals and targets. Without selective global alliances, collaborations, interactions, with diversity, tolerance the local national productivity and quality of global trade hinders badly. Front line teams must be on constant upskilling. Bold open and transparent dialogue is the only way going forward. Pandemic recovery demands collaborative mindset:A new ocean of talent in waves waiting for shores. Armies of displaced high quality workers now isolated.
Dozens of countries have declared such timely mandates; Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia and many dozens more. In the USA, President Trump allocated some $400 Billion to the SME sectors. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada made bold moves and recently announced $10 Billion on Infrastructures and additional $600 million to SME. Each nation of the world has a tough road ahead, while a lot is happening but what is worse is the same old pace, old thinking and old vision, leaking all over and may not achieve the desired targets. Optimization of frontline teams to collaborate and find magic is the key. This is now the realm of command and control on entrepreneurial thinking with simultaneously synchronized mobilizations to conquer the pandemic recovery. Study in depth on Google.
Deployments: Identify and select across the world from some 200 nations, 10,000 cities and options for alliances on exports and trade, the collaborative culture will open new windows. Caution- not to confuse with traditional trade shows missions. These are deep and live interactions with many thousands of touch points.
The precursors to 2021: The live non-stop global reality shows are opening starting with President Trump and his health. The Election on November 3, the G20 on November 21-22, 2020 the long awaited G20 Summit of Riyadh plus some 100 related and non-related climaxes. The pandemic recovery is shaped W. Authoritative dialogue is essential.
Keep frequent flyers out of the cockpits, as they are just flyers but not skilled jumbo-pilots. Pandemic recovery demands special skills therefore fast-track upskilling the missing links. Custom tailor your goals and objectives carefully as the storm of a billion plus displaced in broken economies is approaching. Do not allow nation’s citizens magnetized to populism. Going forward calls, bold and open debates on new ideas with global and national engagements via zoomerang culture of open dialogue and conferences, short distancing the long-distance challenges.
The rest is easy.
