14 min

09. Our Attitudes Towards Change & Risk Abroad Thoughts

    • Places & Travel

Change is inevitable and incurs risk. But as the collapse of the former Soviet system demonstrated, not changing is riskier, as eventually it will result in revolutionary rather than evolutionary change, causing greater suffering and damage. How should individuals, organisations and political and business elites respond to this constant pressure for change and what may happen if they don’t rise to the challenge?

Change is inevitable and incurs risk. But as the collapse of the former Soviet system demonstrated, not changing is riskier, as eventually it will result in revolutionary rather than evolutionary change, causing greater suffering and damage. How should individuals, organisations and political and business elites respond to this constant pressure for change and what may happen if they don’t rise to the challenge?

14 min