CHAPTER 1

The Changing World of Work

As a survival mechanism, employees exercised agility during 2020. The challenge is to maintain this agility while the business recovers to full profitability.

AstraZeneca is an organization that capitalized on employee potential. It was quick to mobilize resources to meet the pressing need to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Tonya Villafana, AstraZeneca’s vice president and global franchise head of infection, credits the company’s accelerated response to its ability to tap into a varied pool of experts, both across the company and through its collaboration with the University of Oxford. What’s more, AstraZeneca not only involved top experts, but also added high performers who were really passionate and wanted to ...

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