The Era of Multiple Transformations: Megatrends for Adults

Michael Marien

You have heard it before: “We live in a complex and rapidly changing world that is filled with dangers and opportunities—and a multitude of challenges demanding innovation and creative leadership.”

Yet it is a basic truth of our times. It is the global context that demands change in the way you work and live. Either you will get swept along in what Robert Theobald has called “the rapids of change,” or you can make some attempt to understand the change in some greater detail and to structure your organization for necessary innovation.

I must stress that this attempt will always be imperfect. We cannot know what will happen in the future, and it is difficult to even know ...

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