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The superlatives to describe the changes underway are never-ending—tectonic shifts, revolutionary changes, a new paradigm, a tsunami of transformation (all adding up to a tsunami of superlatives). Such extreme characterizations don’t arise because the world has acquired a new taste for hyperbole. Rather, the language flows from the attempts of baffled business leaders, boggled academics, and amazed journalists to somehow characterize the world we are entering and how the changes underway are unlike anything before.
Retired General Cohn Powell tells the story of how the first thirty years of his thirty-five year military career were quite straightforward. For those years, the entire strategy of the United States in the world was summed up in one word: containment. The goal was to contain the military, political, and ideological advance of communism. The United States had a unifying systems theory of the world that everyone could understand. There was a single enemy—according to Powell, a “good enemy”—complete with villains like Stalin, who ordered horrible atrocities, and Khrushchev, who pounded his shoe on his desk at the United Nations. The United States built 30,000 nuclear weapons matched by the Soviets’ 30,000 nuclear weapons. Both sides lined up their troops across Europe. And then suddenly it all changed.
General Powell describes a historic meeting with Gorbachev, who was getting frustrated trying to explain how the old model of the world was unworkable. Gorbachev finally leaned across the table to Secretary of State Schultz and said, “You need to understand, Secretary Schultz; today I am ending the cold war.” And then Gorbachev said to Powell, “General, you will have to find yourself another enemy.”
Powell thought to himself at the time, “I don’t want to find another enemy. I’ve got a few years to retirement. You are a good enemy. You can’t just sit there and kick out all of the assumptions, rules, trading systems, political structures that have held the world together for the last 40 years.” And then, in December 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a country. The Soviets lost their economic system, their values, their system of beliefs. That ended the bipolar world, the policy of containment, and the uni1ving systems theory of how the world works.
The result today is the new world disorder, unfolding at warp velocity. Previously unimagined changes taking place in the world and their implications for our professional and personal lives are relentless. There is an openness and a volatility that seem rich with opportunity and fraught with danger for your country, for your organization, for you, and for humanity.
With the collapse of the bipolar world, East and West Germany were reunited, but there was more change globally. Nelson Mandela, once unacceptable as an alleged Soviet-supported “communist,’ was freed after twenty-seven years in jail, and a multiracial state was created in South Africa headed by him. There was a war in the Mideast involving twenty countries in a coalition including the USSR and the United States—on the same side. Horrible civil wars broke out in Yugoslavia, Georgia, Bosnia, (thechnya, Croatia, and elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and half a million people in Rwanda fell victim to the unconstrained new world disorder. Two of the most bitter enemies in modem tiiiies, Israel and the PLO, signed a peace agreement; their respective haclers shook hands at the White House. The United States invaded Haiti. ‘I’Iw United States invaded Somalia. The United States invaded … Peace and war broke out all over the planet.