Leading in Times of Crisis: Navigating Through Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty to Save Your Business

Section Three: Navigating the Wave of Uncertainty

HENRY KISSINGER IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT THE WORLD would look back on the Cold War as the most stable time of the twentieth century. Two superpowers competing for everything with the power of mutual destruction constituted an ironically restful balance. But with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emergence of China, India, and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, the subsequent reemergence of Russia and the wild card threat of bio and nuclear terrorism, the twenty-first century has become filled with a plethora of new economic, political, and military powerhouses that have created a much more unstable world.

Welcome to the third wave of the perfect ...