Whether these are isolated incidents, and the last effort of ageing white men to turn back the clock on history, or whether they mark a bigger shift in global social culture remains to be seen. But what is clear is that the world’s experts perhaps don’t have as strong a grasp on local social political sentiment as they think. Today’s leaders, of course, need to be aware – politically and socially – but more importantly they need to be resilient in the face of change. And it falls upon the training houses of these executives, the world’s business schools, to provide education programs that help develop leaders with the analytical tools and frameworks to put isolated events into a broader context. The financial crisis of 2008/09 exposed the non-resilience of Western economies, and emerging economies took over as the engine of growth.

Source: Forbes June 21, 2017 04:41 UTC