some blabla after reading HBR

Thought: The complexities and increased interconnectedness that come with globalisation and technological advances, confuse many and create an increasing need for people to belong somewhere, to understand their role in the 'bigger' scheme of things.

In a business environment, I see this when colleagues struggle with understanding matrix-structures, (not) taking responsability in cross-functional processes, fighting turf wars,..

In a social context, my high-school history teacher already warned that the growing pains of the EU have a lot in common with that of the Roman Empire - Common ground tends to fade, there is a lack of 'moral' authorities, politics and government tends to be too complex to grasp,..

So one of the challenges is to forge leaders that can have the intellectual, social en emotional intelligence to lead the way...