Our Connected World

Tony Hall and Karen Janman

Chapter 2 in The Leadership Illusion, 2010, pp 22-39 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The world is a messy place. That does not make adaptation and anticipation easy for leaders. Despite the hopes of the 1990’s, hopes for a simpler, more unified world in which “East versus West” and “Communism versus Capitalism” were competing philosophical and economic schisms that would no longer be relevant to the geopolitical landscape, our planet has become increasingly and confusingly complex. We are faced with a dynamic and uncertain world where the global financial markets have collapsed in a shockingly precipitous fashion, in which terrorism has become a global enterprise, where unknown Russian oil magnates can buy iconic British football clubs outright and J. K. Rowling, a writer of children’s books, has gone, in the space of about five years, from an unknown author, living in a one bedroom flat in Edinburgh, to one of the richest storytellers the world has ever seen. Who could have anticipated any of that? But amidst the apparent chaos and complexity at a global level, there are patterns and structures that have real implications for leaders.

Keywords: Global Economy; Small World; Supply Chain Network; Work Life Balance; Network Leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24670-6_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230246706

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-24670-6_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().