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Embracing chaos : how to deal with a world in crisis? / Jan Rotmans and Mischa Verheijden, translated by Michael Gould.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rotmans, Jan, 1961- author.
- Verheijden, Mischa, author.
- Gould, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2023]
- Summary:
- We are living on the cusp of a new era, in which everything that we took for granted is being called into question. Professor Rotmans offers fascinating examples of successful change and encourages us to act decisively and embrace the chaos in order to build a more optimistic future.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Embracing Chaos
- Embracing Chaos: How to deal with a World in Crisis?
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Turmoil in Ourselves and the World
- Three Developments
- Europe in Polycrisis
- Making a Difference
- The Illusion of Powerlessness
- Personal Transition
- Connectors and Demolishers
- 1. Transition Lenses: Seeing in a Different Way
- Time Lens
- Pre-development Phase
- In the In-between-period
- Scale Lens
- Scale Lens: The Energy Transition
- Macro Level
- Meso Level
- Micro Level
- Steering Lens
- 2. Crisis as Opportunity
- Complexity Theory
- Changing Values
- The Financial and Economic Crisis
- The Ecological Crisis
- Planet of the Humans
- The Moral Crisis
- Triple Imbalance
- 3. Civil Servants Can Make the Difference
- System Trends
- Emerging Citizenship
- Decentralization
- Digitalization
- Spatial Integration
- Agile Government
- 4. How Can You, as a Business, Survive the Next Crisis?
- Disruption
- Transformative Companies
- Manoeuvrability
- Resilience
- IKEA: From Sustainable to Circular
- Rabobank: Forward to the Past?
- ABP: Sustainable Leadership in Demand
- Can Shell Reinvent Itself?
- KLM: Will the Pride of the Netherlands Survive?
- Transition Compass for Organizations
- Learn From Each Other
- Don't Take Everyone Along at the Same Pace
- Ratio Is Just as Important as Intuition
- Take Your Time and Don't Be Rushed
- Create Mental and Organizational Space
- Not a Marching Path But a Quest
- Give the Transition a Face
- Celebrate Your Successes, However Small They May Be
- 5. Palette of Transitions: Challenges and Solutions
- The Energy Transition
- The Energy Transition Challenge
- This Is How We Can Accelerate the Energy Transition
- The Raw Materials Transition.
- This Is How We Can Accelerate the Raw Materials Transition
- The Circular Transition
- This Is How We Can Accelerate the Circular Transition
- The Agriculture and Food Transition
- This Is How We Can Accelerate the Agircultural and Food Transition
- The Spatial Transition
- The Financial Transition
- The Educational Transition
- The Health Care Transition
- How Can We Accelerate the Health Care Transition?
- The Social Transition
- This Is How We Can Accelerate the Social Transition
- The Democratic Transition
- Keys to Accelerating the Transition
- What You Can Do
- 6. Personal Transition: The Journey Inside
- The Journey to the Outside
- The Inner Journey
- I am Going on a Journey, and I am Taking With Me…
- What Type of Changemaker Are You?
- Resistance
- Leadership
- Feminine Leadership
- Connecting Leadership
- Authentic Leadership
- Inspired Leadership
- Transformative Leadership
- Step Into the Arena
- Epilogue
- References.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-83753-634-1
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