# Professor Amy Webb's recent comments on how leaders can create a state of readiness are featured

1 Faculty News May 12, 2020 ![CMSwireLogo_190x145](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/CMSWireLogo_190x145.jpg?itok=MRBOJAlQ)>

Excerpt from [CMS Wire](https://www.cmswire.com/leadership/how-higher-ed-and-all-of-us-need-to-build-more-resilient-organizations/) -- "Last week during the MIT Sloan Disruption 2020 event, [Amy Webb](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb) shared her view into the new normal and how it will disrupt business going forward. Webb was candid: 'Would I have known that a coronavirus at this point in time would have caused this amount of disruption — the answer is no. There is no way to build that kind of a model. However, should pandemics have been in someone’s strategic plan? The answer is yes.'"

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