THE MEGACRISIS UNKNOWN TERRITORY - In Search of Conceptual and Strategic Breakthroughs

Patrick Lagadec (1)

1 X-DEP-ECO - Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique

The nature of major crises has dramatically evolved over the past fewyears: Megcrises become the name of the game. The goal of this contribution is to capture the evolving notion of crisis, and to prepare new references to deal with the new crisis landscapes. The first section aims at building a renewed understanding of the emerging challenges we face – a combination of rogue events made of severity, speed, ignorance, hypercomplexity, inconceivability, and liquefaction-prone contexts that no longer guarantee the “back to normalcy” comforting rule. The second develops the components of a strategic response which includes: a seminal paradigm shift; a switch from management to leadership, and from “Command and Control” to decisive empowerment; and a whole new approach in education and training.

L'univers des crises connaît des bouleversements et des mutations qui obligent à repenser fondamentalement nos cadres d'analyse comme nos logiques d'intervention. Cette contribution vise à cartographier le théâtre d'opérations qui est désormais le nôtre, à clarifier les pièges qui nous guettent ; et surtout, à esquisser des pistes d'innovation – paradigmes, logiques de réponse, formation –, puisque nous ne pourrons traverser les megacrises qui vont désormais être notre lot avec les cadrages cognitifs et opérationnels du siècle dernier.

Mots clés: Critical Thinking; Strategic Approach

Mots clés: Mega-crises; Intelligence stratégique; Pilotage stratégique

Domaines: Gestion et management

Patrick Lagadec. THE MEGACRISIS UNKNOWN TERRITORY - In Search of Conceptual and Strategic Breakthroughs. 2009. ⟨hal-00404076⟩