2010 - Joshua Cooper Ramo
Mr. Ramo is managing director at Kissinger Associates and New York Times Best-Selling author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It. Prior to entering the strategic advisory business, Ramo was an award-winning journalist and the youngest-ever Foreign Editor of TIME magazine.
Observations from Joshua Cooper Ramo
We’ve entered an era of disruption and instability. There are numerous examples of events that have occurred over the past decade that would once have been considered “unthinkable:”
The financial crisis and the resulting economic environment that is far different from what America and the world experienced when the tech bubble burst little more than a decade ago.
Questions about whether the U.S. dollar will maintain its status as the world‘s reserve currency.
Numerous examples of “experts” turning out to be wrong about the direction of events in the world. A notable example is former Federal Reserve chair- man Alan Greenspan‘s stated —shock“ that his view of the world held for 40 years was flawed, as proven by the financial crisis.
These are examples of how we face a fundamental reset in the way things work in the world. This requires a new way of thinking about how about how to prepare for an era of uncertainty that lies ahead.
