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Jean-Pierre Robin: "The future is no more uncertain in 2021 than it was in 1921"

2021-06-27T20:46:32.093Z


We exaggerate our problems for the reason that they are ours, explains the economist. Secular pandemic, unprecedented economic crisis in peacetime, jobs precarious by digital technologies, ways of life turned upside down by teleworking… Everything changes, everything moves, everything “disrupts”, nothing is taken for granted. Ah, how we are to be pitied! Americans, who have the gift of capturing paradigm shifts and adore acronyms, speak of the “Vuca” world for “volatility, uncertai


Secular pandemic, unprecedented economic crisis in peacetime, jobs precarious by digital technologies, ways of life turned upside down by teleworking… Everything changes, everything moves, everything “disrupts”, nothing is taken for granted.

Ah, how we are to be pitied!

Americans, who have the gift of capturing paradigm shifts and adore acronyms, speak of the “Vuca” world for “volatility, uncertainty (

uncertainty

), complexity, ambiguity”.

Our common lot.

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The concept was created by the American army, at the US Army War College, thirty years ago in the aftermath of the Cold War, to apprehend the disoriented international relations that became unpredictable after the fall of the USSR.

And, as is often the case with notions of military strategy, management gurus have seized hold of it.

The vogue for start-ups dates back to the 1990s. Flexibility and deconstruction are now required for companies of all sizes, which must be agile, flexible, reactive, otherwise

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Source: lefigaro

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