One of the ways we manage our hearts and minds in times like these is to assume that everything that matters will change; that we are at a global turning point. History shows this is rarely this case. Assuming change will be extreme helps us manage our emotions: if it happens we won’t be surprised; if it doesn’t we can be relieved our worst fears weren’t realized.
Wharton Business School Professor Mauro Guillen’s new book: “2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything,” makes the case that the changes emanating from the Corona crisis will be significant, but not of the order of previous the Black Death in the 1300s or the Great Depression of 1930; in other words, changes of degree and not of kind.
The review of this forthcoming book in Chief Executive Magazine summarizes Dr. Guillen’s thesis that “the virus will intensify and accelerate rather than create a series of interrelated trends, all of which will have an increasing influence on every aspect of life across the world over the coming decade.”
Check out this short review of “A Changed World by 2030: How Covid Accelerates 6 Key Trends.”