Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions

Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions

by Blair H. Sheppard
Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions

Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions

by Blair H. Sheppard

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Overview

"Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act."
—Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International

In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities—stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership.

Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises—but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523088744
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 08/04/2020
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Blair H. Sheppard is the global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, a network of professional services firms committed to building trust in society and solving important problems. He is also professor emeritus and dean emeritus of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. During his time at Duke, he was the founding CEO and chairman of Duke Corporate Education and was the principal force behind opening Duke's campus in China. Five of the coauthors are directors in global strategy and leadership at PwC and one is a leading business journalist

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part I How We Got to the Precipice 1

1 What Worries Us 11

2 Asymmetry and the Crisis of Prosperity 25

3 Disruption and the Crisis of Technology 41

4 Trust and the Crisis of Institutional Legitimacy 54

5 Polarization and the Crisis of Leadership 69

6 Age, Accelerating the Four Crises 77

Part II Conquering the Crises 87

7 Strategy: Rethinking Economic Growth-Local First 91

8 Strategy: Reimagining Success-Thriving in a Broken World 105

9 Structure: Repairing Failing Institutions-Cementing the Foundations 120

10 Culture: Refreshing Technology-Innovation as a Social Good 133

11 Massive and Fast: Problems That Cannot Wait 144

12 Leadership: Reframing Influence-Balancing Paradoxes 161

A Note on COVID-19 177

Epilogue 179

Notes 181

Acknowledgments 189

Index 191

About the Authors 199

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