I recently wrote a 3rd Quarter Update for The ONE1 Asian DM Center which said,
“We go into the 3rd Quarter 2009 with a sense of wonderment and thankfulness. It is indeed wonderful and hopeful to see how the world and its communities, when well informed can work in synergy to counteract the systemic shocks it inevitably generates from time to time… like the financial crisis and the swine flu pandemic that we are in the midst of. Whatever the cynics may say, we are indeed living in a well tuned world!”
As the world becomes one major system…systemic failures with global effects, like what was recently experienced will occur again. Market volatility will continually challenge governments, businesses and individuals. They will have to increasingly build on their internal stability, strength and flexibility to survive and thrive.
Older generation leaders tend to believe that systems should not go wrong….when it does they point fingers, blame..and try to cut out the wounds…aggravating the situation even further.
Insulation and Isolation are hardly a solution except perhaps in the prevention of a pandemic growing into larger proportions. Even in this respect, without open communications, cooperation and collaboration between health authorities around the world, the disease will probably have spread far more extensively.
We are thankful that the new generation leaders seemed to have learned lesson from untidy, disruptive fast pace progress of the 1990s to manage the turbulence of the 2,000s.
