Presidential Magazine

ONLY WAY BUSINESSES CAN
THE
THIS DECADE OF DISRUPTION
SURVIVE
by carmen wilde
The devastating impact of lockdowns has exposed just how vulnerable
businesses and industries are to disruptive socioeconomic forces. This raises
the question, “Was this a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ crisis, or a sign of what’s to
come and what business leaders need to gear themselves for in the future?”
According to two leading Futurists, Jerome Glenn and David Houle, whom I
recently interviewed on www.BwBTV.net, many disruptive events await us
over the next decade. If leaders do not become masterful at navigating and
adapting quickly to disruptive changes, businesses, industries, and
economies will collapse in the chaos and the very survival of humanity as
we know it will be at risk.
This might sound dramatic, but we need to look at the widespread
convergence of social, economic, political, and environmental crises on a
global and national scale right now, and how this has negatively impacted
businesses, families and individuals, to see that leaders across the board, are
not geared to respond effectively to these threats. Even the most optimistic
thinkers among us realize we need to shake the tree and start to think and act
dramatically different to how we have until now!
Is Covid-19 The Cause Of This Disruption Or Simply The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back? Let’s reverse before
Covid-19 and look closely at the general condition and integrity of business and leadership structures. A frank analysis
would reveal, on the whole, an impressive fasçade grossly lacking in substance to withstand any form of strength-testing
on a disruptive scale. Instead, these structures are infected with greed, self-interest, disparity, corruption, fragmentation,
division, parasitism, predatorial competition, and an immeasurably long list of traits that support the ‘every man for
himself’ model that has infected the core of our economic and social systems.