Culture Shock: A Handbook For 21st Century Business



Global Shifts and Black Swans

It has become a cliché but, in a world of continuous disruption, change is the only constant.

Let’s remind ourselves of some of the recent volatility and disruption in the global political and economic landscape:

• Lehman Brothers and the corresponding global financial system meltdown
• Double-dip recession 2007 to the present day
• The Arab Spring
• Rise of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) as new economic powerhouses – in particular the rise of China
• US stagnation
• Euro crisis, with Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain in various states of deep financial malaise
• Occupy movement
• Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, Japan
• Wikileaks and Guardian campaigns against News Corporation
• The deaths ...