As we emerge blinking into the light of post-covid lockdown, I’m sure we are all surveying our businesses and working out what next. We are immersed in predictions about the end of the office, the death of retail (again) and the demise of the restaurant sector anywhere dominated by large commercial buildings.

Who can predict what will happen? I suspect the harbingers of doom are, as always, a little overly dramatic. I’m sure things will settle but of course it depends on how long that takes and whether the lack of confidence itself will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

More significantly, I think recovery from lockdown offers us opportunities we shouldn’t ignore. Opportunities to do those things we have always wanted to do but never felt the right impetus for, or to forge new partnerships and relationships to solve problems being thrown into greater relief by the pandemic.

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