Leadership in the age of immediacy
by Marten Mickos

Posted on 4 CommentsPosted in 7th Global Peter Drucker Forum

We live in a digital age where our humanity is challenged. What humans were mechanically doing is now being automated by software. Tasks that used to require advance planning and a long execution time can now be done immediately with the help of online resources. Orchestration of larger events that required costly and cumbersome intermediaries can now be done directly. The units of resources are becoming more granular, available online through automated interfaces in large liquid marketplaces. Friction is being removed. Access to resources is broader; the industrial world is being democratized. A small startup can disrupt a giant corporation.   Homo Sapiens spent the past tens of thousands of years building societies where we […]