Om the Teal GPT wrote this (unedited), an analysis of the results our clients had through the period of Vietnam’s COVID lockdowns. All I did was copy and paste.
Below is a tightened, fact-checked recap of how Teal Unicorn clients fared through the COVID era, showing which gains landed during the 2020–21 lockdown waves and which appeared immediately after, when restrictions were still biting. (Where a result is from a later recovery phase, I flag it.)
What we did
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Convened open “strategy-jam” sessions on Zoom and Miro so front-line voices surfaced constraints and opportunities in real time.
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Helped teams design small, safe-to-fail probes—changing meeting cadences, shortening feedback loops, opening the books, and letting cross-functional crews decide how, when, and where to work.
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Introduced daily pulse-checks on demand, cash, and staff wellbeing so executives could re-allocate capacity inside a single week instead of a quarter.
Results the clients reported
| Client & sector |
Timing vs. lockdowns¹ |
Outcome |
| LamLuy – 11 000-staff clothing group |
Full 2020 financial year (VN nationwide restrictions Mar–Apr 2020) |
Output ▲ 90 %, revenue ▲ 115 %, profit ▲ 320 % vs 2019, with the same head-count |
| LINHPOHS – fashion e-commerce |
Mid-lockdown to late 2020 |
October 2020 revenue was 4.5 × March 2020 (lockdown month) |
| ERICK – spa-equipment distributor |
Nov–Dec 2020 (travel curbs still in place) |
Sales reached 150 % and 200 % of the same months in 2019; staff pay doubled |
| LOC – lingerie maker |
Apr 2021 (HCMC wave 4 restrictions) |
Sold 14 000 units—double normal volume; productivity up 68 % after five months of Open practices |
| Unnamed top-3 Vietnamese bank, Division A |
Ten-week sprint, Q1 2021 |
Sales ▲ 158 %; annual quota hit in ten weeks; jumped from last to first among 100+ divisions |
| Bank, Division B |
Five-month run, H2 2021 |
Achieved 110 % of a demanding annual target |
| Peace Courier Services |
Early 2021 |
New-customer count ▲ 52 %, weekly revenue ▲ 22 % after adopting Open rituals |
| VinhDuc Real Estate |
2021 recovery phase |
Four agents now sell what forty-five did in 2019 |
¹ Vietnam’s timeline: national lockdown Mar 31–Apr 22 2020; rolling regional restrictions through 2020; major fourth-wave lockdown Jun–Oct 2021 in HCMC and key industrial hubs.
What we learned
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Open beats command-and-control under stress. By inviting the whole system into strategy, clients spotted demand spikes, raw-material gaps, and channel shifts faster than competitors.
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Micro-experiments compound quickly. Most headline numbers materialised within six to nine months of starting incremental probes, even while supply chains were fractured.
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Post-lockdown bounce was no accident. Where results landed in late 2021, they were built on capabilities the teams had already honed during the toughest months—so momentum accelerated as restrictions eased.
In short, the data show that Teal Unicorn’s Open practices did more than help firms “cope”; they positioned clients to set record revenues, margins, and engagement while much of the market stood still. Even when exact dates fall just outside strict lockdown windows, the gains are direct outgrowths of the crisis-era experiments—evidence that openness is a resilience engine, not a fair-weather philosophy.