‘Radical collaboration’: Business leaders look to build on best practices from the pandemic – By Megan Leonhardt (Fortune) / Oct 3 2021
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Over the past 18 months, companies worldwide have come together in new and collaborative ways to solve the problems posed by COVID-19, including everything from creating vaccines to solving supply chain bottlenecks for critical products like soap and hand sanitizer.
While many organizations were able to pivot quickly to meet the challenges, female leaders in the health and medical industry told Fortune’s Most Powerful Women roundtable discussions Thursday that collaboration was key to finding solutions.
“In healthcare, our mission is really very big and helping change the trajectory of human health. And we often have very big and complex issues to solve. The days where we could solve problems on our own are really gone, and collaboration has really become the way to do things,” said Luani Alvarado, worldwide vice president of human resources for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health.
But “radical collaboration,” as Unilever’s chief human resources officer Leena Nair calls it, is a mindset that takes effort—it doesn’t just happen. “There’s perseverance behind collaboration,” she told conference participants.
