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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

by Gary Hamel
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 35m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

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CHANGING HOW WE CHANGE

What will people make of our age a thousand years hence? What will they find remarkable about the waning years of the second millennium and the coming of the third? The invention of the Web? The fact that human beings decoded their own genome or sent a vehicle to Mars? The emergence of digitally empowered democracy movements around the world? The ways in which we responded, or didn't, to the specter of climate change? All of this will be notable, but most of all, they'll be struck by the fact that in our generation, the pace of change went hypercritical.

Truly, change has changed. We are surrounded by all sorts of things that are changing at an exponential pace: the number of mobile phones in the world, CO2 emissions, ...

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