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21st Century Crises: A New Cosmology Urgently Needed

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  • Patrick Lagadec

    (X-DEP-ECO - Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique - X - École polytechnique)

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"Why do we continually seem to be a disaster behind?". This is the key question behind "Failures of Imagination" or "Failures of Initiative". The worrying news is that, crisis after crisis, we react as if programmed to do no more than call for "more of the same": more ready-made answers, more plans, more Command and Control. The good news is that some are beginning to understand that emerging issues and contexts of the 21st Century demand a decisive breakthrough in crisis culture and strategy. Just as Magellan did in his own 16th Century context, we also need a new cosmology. The time has come to take on the risk of sketching new maps, and give birth to new strategies, new tactics, new models of education and training.

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  • Patrick Lagadec, 2008. "21st Century Crises: A New Cosmology Urgently Needed," Post-Print hal-00370752, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00370752
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