Leadership and Business Wisdom - Turbulent Times Ahead.

• Author: Kazmi, S. Kamal Hayder
• Position: Brief article

Byline: S. Kamal Hayder Kazmi

It turbulent times, the first task of management is to make sure of the institution's capacity to survive a blow.

In turbulent times, the first task of management is to make sure of the institution's capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strengths, of its capacity for survival, to make sure of its structural strengths, of its capacity to survive a blow, to adapt to sudden change, and to avail itself of new opportunities. Turbulence, by definition, is irregular, nonlinear, erratic. But its underlying causes can be analyzed, predicted, managed.

But its underlying should - and can 0 - manage is the single most important new reality underlying a great deal of the turbulence around: the sea-change in population structure and population dynamics, and especially the shift in population structure and population dynamics in the developed countries of the West and Japan. These shifts are already changing the modes of economic integration throughout the world. They are likely to lead to a new "transnational...