Leadership for a Fractured World

Preface

This book is about helping people and groups that have great differences come together to solve shared problems. It is about providing leadership to address the interdependent challenges, real dangers, and abundant opportunities generated by the fractured, complex, and unpredictable world in which we live. Interdependent problems cannot be resolved by one group acting alone or in isolation, and therefore a new notion of leadership and change is needed. Today we need to be global change agents.

By “global change agent,” I do not mean someone crisscrossing the globe solving world problems but anyone, at the local or international level, who has a broad mindset and is committed to making the world a better place. The global change agent ...