Leaders around the world are facing serious dilemmas as they try to wade through the muddle created by the pandemic.  National leaders are in quandary over whether to be seen as incompetent by enforcing strict lockdown and letting the economy sink to the point of privation of citizens or to be seen as rapacious elites by opening up the economic doors at the expense of surging infections and deaths.

Similarly, the conundrums for the head of organizations and private companies are not easy either since they are also faced with challenging decisions under the pressure of uncertainty. For each sector, each business, each country and each organization the challenge is unique and yet just as inextricable. There is no clear choice. There is no correct answer. And there is no clear choice because most problems faced during the pandemic or because of it are wicked problems. They are unsolvable!  The solution will only entangle the web of problems a little bit more so the correctness of the problem is not what we are concerned with rather the morality of it is more pertinent. Whether the decision was good or bad rather than right or wrong?

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