Title:
COVID-19, SUPERDIVERSITY, CRISIS-COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP: LESSONS TO BE LEARNED

Authors:
Carl Hermann Dino Steinmetz, Netherlands

Abstract:

In this article we try to take a step forward. COVID-19 will be among us for a long time to come. This means that our world has to be organised differently. Now we are fully committed to the 1.5 meter society. This article comments on that. After all, there are many more vulnerable groups than just the elderly. Other groups are immigrants and refugees in poverty. And also youngsters who are in need of peer contacts and right wing radicals who openly oppose the COVID-19 measures taken by governments. In this article, a model Ubuntu is presented that could possibly function as a hanger for the redesign of our society. Not only do we have to deal with a COVID-19 society, but also with Black Lives Matter. These two crucial phenomena, the virus COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter, overlap and force society into a fundamental redesign. This is also desperately needed because Western society and certainly its big cities are superdiverse. People from all over the world live in these superdiverse cities, together they are in these cities the majority or almost the majority. Finally, this article focuses on crisis communication and leadership styles. Female leadership styles are scrutinized because we believe it would be better for our planet if we had at least 80% female leaders in companies, institutions and politics.