Futurize! Dealing with Megatrends and Disruptors: A Handbook for the Future-Oriented CEO

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The future will bring only more megatrends and disruptions. With the guidance of this book, which centers around the authors’ years-of-research-backed high-performance organizations (HPO) framework and includes the unique self-assessment tool Futurize! Diagnosis, business leaders and organizations will be prepared and truly ‘future ready.’

The next two decades will present massive challenges for organizations, as they navigate the need for sustainable development against a complex backdrop of factors such as increasing inequality, resource scarcity, continued globalization, and the ever-increasing speed of technological advancement. This book will help business leaders and organizations set priorities and make decisions so that not only do they honor commitments to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, but also become more future ready by:

    • identifying the megatrends and disruptors which impact organizations now and will in the future

    • specifically outlining how those megatrends and disruptors will impact organizations

    • showing how organizations can deal with this impact in practical terms.

    This book is a must for management teams, aspiring leaders, and professionals and students interested in the future of work, human resource management, and innovation.

    Author(s): André de Waal, Julie Linthorst
    Publisher: Routledge
    Year: 2022

    Language: English
    Pages: 176
    City: New York

    Cover
    Half Title
    Title
    Copyright
    Contents
    About the authors
    Prologue: a wake-up call
    Book content
    1 Purpose of this book
    2 Identification of the megatrends and disruptors
    3 The high-performance organization framework
    4 Speed of technological advancement: Megatrend 1
    5 Flexible employment: Megatrend 2
    6 Skills mismatch: Megatrend 3
    7 Sustainable employment: Megatrend 4
    8 Continued globalization: Megatrend 5
    9 Changing workforce composition: Megatrend 6
    10 Increasing inequality: Megatrend 7
    11 Environmental issues: Megatrend 8
    12 Economic power shifts: Megatrend 9
    13 Urbanization: Megatrend 10
    14 Cross-border migration: Megatrend 11
    15 Resource scarcity: Megatrend 12
    16 Individualism: Megatrend 13
    17 Pandemics: Disruptor 1
    18 The Futurize! process
    References
    Index