Philosophy of change by yehia el zont
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- 1. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP IN THE LIGHT OF INELUCTABILITY OF
CHANGEAFTER THE REVOLUTION OF JANUARY 25 TH"STRATEGIC VISION
Prepared and presented by YehIa El ZOnt Researcher in Humanities
Management Science [Type the document subtitle]
- 2. RH 1 Strategic Leadership in the light of ineluctability of
Change After the Revolution of January 52 th "Strategic Vision"
Prepared and presented by YehIa El ZOnt Researcher in Humanities
Management Science
- 3. RH 5 Notice: This research has enabled to obtain the Grade
of Management-Leadership from the Egyptian Police Academy on 72
October 7122 Dedicated To those concerned by future leadership To
scholars in Management Science and practitioners To leaders in
various areas For a brighter future To all those who contributed in
this modest thesis convinced of its importance in this stage
- 4. RH 3 Thanks and appreciation Praise be to Allah, prayer and
peace be upon His Messenger and the Seal of the Prophets, Prophet
Muhammad and his family and companions. I thank God Almighty for
having enabled me to complete this study and I express my gratitude
to all those who participated and helped me obtaining this
high-leveled degree, rich in contents and so beneficial to all of
them I express my thanks, my appreciation and my gratitude. I also
thank in particular: Dr. Hisham Arafa The Scientific Supervisor Dr.
Gamal Tawfiq Lecturer in Research Methodology My Professor Saad El
Zant Head of the Center for Strategic Studies and Strategist. Who,
through their wise guidance and bright advices enabled me to
complete this study in its final drafting; their support and for
having motivated me and transmitting me scientific and practical
experience in addition to invaluable moral values. May God bless
them for that I also thank all mo colleagues and friends. And our
final prayer is praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds and peace
and blessings on the Master of the first and the last
- 5. RH 4 our Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and all his
family and companions. The Researcher PREAMBLE There is no doubt we
are living an era dominated by major institutional conflicts and
failures A time combining painful endings and hopeful beginnings a
period where all what seemed rooted becomes obsolete and dies and
where something else is eager to appear. When we look at the world
map and see the continents stable and forming a global island
surrounded by water from everywhere, we discover the magnitude of
the role required by the major changes Earth was not divided in
that manner and without the trembling, earthquakes and cracks the
Earth would have been a single mass and we would not have seen this
map as it is known nowadays. The former Czech President and
playwright Vaclav Havel said: "There are good reasons suggesting
that the modern era has ended and there are many things showing
that we are going through a transitional period and it seems that
something is on its way to disappear and that something else arises
in pain; as if there is something crumbles,
- 6. RH 2 disintegrates and consumes itself, while another thing
not yet not clearly distinct arises from emerges from rubble."
Therefrom and applying on the nature of our national organizations,
we note that the civilizational changes taking place in Egypt - at
this stage require in turn an earthquake to design once again its
cultural and humanitarian face, and draw the most luxurious and
bright colors and provide it with hope and determination. To play
its role, the new leadership needs new human resource, valiantable
to overcome obstaclesintroducing new tracks leader optimistic and
interactingelectronically thinking a leader relying on people
trusting them using methods of global quality and management
engineering and information technologies a leadership concerned by
the creating the future instead of formalities and technicalities
devoid of any content. And when States are facing the growing
challenges and seek to engage into the future, the intellectual
earthquake becomes a must, as it requires a new modeling of the
mind and definition of possible and impossible changes and previous
concepts and criterion of thought generated by these challenges
regress this earthquake is the element renewing the vitality of
minds
- 7. RH 6 and contributes in sorting ideas and masterfully
constructs the bridge through which societies move towards future.
Thus, the future of Egypt now depends on the ability of existing
organizations and sectors to respond to and interact with the
earthquake of minds and building such capacity is what we called
"Management of the Future". So, how could we grasp its
opportunities? Philosophy of building and manage the future is a
strategic cycle that should be present in the programs for
developing Egypt at this stage. This is what I am trying to
highlight and give myself an opportunity to contribute even
modestly through this modest book to build capacities of the
decision makers (at all levels, orientations and patterns) in
designing its promising future, based on values of creativity,
scientific thought, reconstruction, justice and interconnexion,
arming it with tools of appropriate cultural change and granting it
skills helping it to deal with (political administrative cultural
social security) environment becoming more complex and intermixed,
which produced entirely new systems and ideologies compared to what
we experienced during the past decades.
- 8. RH 7 We are trying to work and contribute in developing the
production of sciences of changes and to be the precursors in
dealing with these sciences in this field and to set up a new look
on the nature of changes and explore the future and predict its
course through strategic leadership and its unique specificities in
managing organizations and capacity of creating such organizations
ready to face crisis, exceptional or unexpected events a direct
management and not a reactive one and get ready to face them in
order to deal with them and limit its risks and threats and control
them and exiting from them towards future opportunities reflecting
aspirations of the society with all its communities and categories
and targeted elements including citizens and those who have also
the right to obtain services from leaders (each in its place) at
highly leveled standards, so they can feel the efforts deployed to
their profit on one hand and their dignity and humanity on the
other hand. This perception of the importance of managing the
future has led to the necessity to establish a kind of strategic
coalitions among a range of human sciences (such as management
sociology psychology behavior) which will result in that these
sciences, integrated and reformulated theories will be an integral
part of the sciences of the future aiming at providing a scientific
methodology to remind people
- 9. RH 8 belonging to this homeland and ensure a real benefit
from changing and rooting on a scientific basis able to achieve the
security and civilizational change. pursuant to the requirements of
events of January 52th 5111 we are still living the effects, only
the urgency or rush may settle the course and outcome of throes
currently experienced by the Arab World. Change is a necessity, it
is also a struggle. In the attempts to reach the bottom of the
current impasse, we have to realize that at the bottom of the
historical moment, we discover that the continuation of the current
situation is impossible because it means further deterioration and
also the fall of a nation among the most ancient nations in History
and in human civilization. This is why we need "change", but change
has its projects which differ and vary as we notice it now all over
the Arab World level where parties emerges in an incomplete form as
well as random coalitions and civil society random associations to
an extent making the fight being a logical consequence of the
conflicting projects of change. These are not the type of projects
that enable a kind of participation, as they do not represent
solutions able to exist alongside but final historical options of
the type "Eitheror?"
- 10. RH 9 Therefore the necessity of change and its conflicts
coincides and create this situation and this crisis. We have to
carry out this change and we must fight since we try to make the
change. The change proposed in the following pages is "the
Renaissance, the modernity and the Informatics" which include
Renovation and Development and the condition of originality and
authenticity it is a project that is opposed to projects of exiting
from identity and cultural reference, and confirms that the
solutions comes out from the fact that the nation belongs to its
civilization and its capacity of true renovation. Current protests
or criticism or revolutions are the results of long series of
political, economical and social causes in each country, at the
regional level and global level as a whole. Thusthey do not arise
from a sole factor, even if the role of impacting factors is not
stable and even if in a single case between the beginnings and the
endings. In other words, these movements did not occur as a result
of a decision made by a single group, whether internal or external
and it is sometimes able to decide the contrary, meaning the stop
of the revolution
- 11. RH 11 or the insurgency or the protest and decide,
subsequently, the return to a normal life, after having achieved
the private or general goals it was aiming. It is not possible, of
course, to discover the start of the movement of the "Arabic
Spring" through positions and writings of the affected bodies
whether systems or beneficiaries of such systems or even their
supporters It is also impossible to rely on the conclusions of the
alleged protectors of human rights and freedom in the worldthose
pretending to speak on behalf of the "world community" or the
international public opinion. What occurs and continue in form of
protest movements whether huge or small, limited or extensive,
looking like insurgencies and maybe revolutions are the expression
of a "historical inevitability" whose stages cover the long and
sinuous history though directed generally according to an ascending
line towards freedom and human development and reinforcement and
validation of its gains, increase and magnification of its
achievements, and building new foundations in the monument of its
civilization on this unique planet in this strange universe is the
one worthy to lead the world and dominate it with its will.
- 12. RH 11 In this regard we would like to draw the attention on
the fact that among the worst mistakes about understanding and
interpretation of the events changes, insurgencies and revolutions
is the confusion between the aims and the tools used to achieve
them. The most dangerous types of confusion consists in
establishing a relationship of similarity and reduction between
interests of power and categories and social classes and between
individuals who played influential roles throughout the stages of
turns, changes and revolution. When subjective factors overwhelmed
and amplified in an abnormal manner, there were abuse, confusion of
the path and huge damages. Deviation starts small then grows. Point
of contacts appeared and contacting links seemed at first look
geographically farther than we thought than being a purely local
Egyptian production. The starting point, though it seems generally
gloomy, however the injustice occurring afterwards may go beyond
all limits and all rights and all objective facts. We do not intend
to judge the events of January 52th 5111 because History is not
merciful to those who initiated it and thought they have said the
final and decisive work; as the
- 13. RH 15 events continue and the sufferings are still
occurring and the baby still does not see the light it is still in
the womb of the events and most importantly there are doubts in
determining the legal father of the baby which leads us as
researchers to deepen our study in this direction considering that
we are an integral part and a pillar of the social system of the
State, in addition to our social inevitable responsibility towards
our follow citizens. We intended through these digressions to
assert the basis or the objective nature of the unprecedented
protest operation that Arab World is still witnessing and the
confirmation of such basis or essential factor does not negate
other factors, internal or external, political or economical, of
security or mood or even vendetta and psychological factors buried
in the depth of the unconsciousness in some segments of the society
and its categories, falling within the range of implications or
arising from the increase of sufferings. We are always living in
the middle of open conflict. It is basically generated from a
tendency in control and domination and devoting them to the
interest of social forces aware of their interests in general or
struggling for fighting injustice and control and predominance and
deprivation and poverty and tyranny
- 14. RH 13 However the embalming of experiences and people on
one hand and reliance on transfer without criticism (which is
addition and deletion), and deviations and small interests on the
other hand have caused retractations and losses and confusions,
that confirmed once again the comprehensiveness of the conflict and
the contradiction that are in fact the real "birth" of the
"History", meaning progress, liberation and civilizationthis is
what we sincerely hope from a purely national vision. We would
like, here, to highlight strategic joint element (external
environment internal environment) between the protest movements,
the insurgencies and revolutions and also a major strategic
difference. Regarding the joint element it concerns displacement
towards freedom and also the common is the attempt to exploit the
protest movement in order to serve aims of regional and
International influencing forces, fearing for their interests or
seeking for them, depending on the concerned country and its
conditions. The Syrian case represents a model of such context, as
the foreign interventions are increasing in a frantically race, in
addition to internal reactions burdened with seizures and
- 15. RH 14 confiscations and intimidation and eager desire for
freedom, for participation and exit from the state of emergency and
exception to a state of permanent stability. Regarding the
difference, all this is growing next to what was ongoing and still
continues in matter of propaganda speeches and hollow rituals, to
build with the help of the efforts deployed by writers and media
figures and ordinary of exceptional activists attempting to explain
what is happening and trying to justify it and giving it the true
or counterfeit legitimacy it deserves each according to its agenda.
All this is taking place and offers us finally a state of hope and
distortion amidst great sufferings and sacrifices of the rest of
the citizens confirming what we said in the beginning.
Accordinglyit is necessary to free the large targets from the small
and selfish interests and inevitably free the noble targets from
the burden of mediators and tools, particularly interests of
individualsto be noted that revolutions are not achieved
immediately and according to a final pattern unchanged and
irremovablethis is why the true revolutionary patriots in the
historical continued and extended sense cannot rest as world will
continue to oppress poor and weak peopleand those people must
continue to fight and protest and the Revolution is not
- 16. RH 12 merely a political concept of changing regimes but
there are scientific revolutions based on knowledge and culture and
civilizationforever! Importance of the Study The importance of the
study and its value is based on the fact that it addresses an
important topic and is essentially linked to change and evolution
such as the social need thereof reflecting on the political systems
governing a State and the way of managing wisely its organizations.
It also highlights the importance of the research in seeking for
new horizons that should not be ignored, particularly the necessity
to understand the nature of the stage which is consistent with the
requirements of the phase that Egypt is passing through after the
events of January 52th 5111 and an attempt to anticipate the future
through presentation of a part of the problems and questions that
would eventually create future opportunities. The importance of the
study also consists in getting acquainted with the concept of
leadership and its role in dealing with the crisis in the midst of
which we are living, as it one of the concepts widely expanding in
our
- 17. RH 16 contemporary society and is affecting in one way or
another all the aspects of life Since the language of our epoch
consists in anticipating future, in order to deduce before it
happens what we should do to face it in the best effective and
efficient way and if possible to participate in modeling it, it was
necessary to find a strategic leadership with special management
skills and genius in a very critical moment, not only for Egypt but
also for the whole Arab World; this leadership should possess the
capabilities to overcome political challenges in the current
crisis. Putting forward a strategic vision that could help the
decision makers in dealing with future events with all their
implications and threats and seeking for promising opportunities in
the light of the experience of our long- standing organizations.
Problem of the Research The problem of the research is that anyone
who follows the crises faced by Egypt since events of January 52th
5111 will find that there is an intellectual confusion that hit
most of those who made it and those who are directing the current
events.
- 18. RH 17 This intellectual confusion that hit the Egyptian
society has resulted in a total unawareness or understanding of the
current events and the nature of the phase, which affected
naturally their behavior and conduct and consequently made them
lose the compass and a sound vision of the future. The absence of
intellectual and psychological readiness of the society enabling it
to absorb such a volume of information from the (visual written and
audio) media in addition to the virtual world of course. Besides an
almost complete inability to learn from previous crisis and
accumulation of lessons that they benefit from in order to avoid
and prevent future crisis that could result in a catastrophe
completely ruining the country. In this context, there is a serious
lack of efficient administrative leadership with creative
capabilities and well qualified intellectually and psychologically
and having cumulative experience enabling them to overcome the
crisis and control its consequences and benefit from lessons and
even re-investing them.. Aims of the Research
- 19. RH 18 Looking forward to building a better society based on
knowledge and modernity through sufficiency and justice; no doubt
that this trend would have a direct impact on the citizen and also
on the regime, as well as on the methods of achieving business,
management and performance of responsibilities and activities. The
nature of current events we are living and their scientific
definition. Getting acquainted with the philosophy of change
through introduction to humanities (sociology, administration and
behavioral psychology. In the context of these data, the evolution
of the state bodies, upgrading them and improving their working
methods become part of vital national requirements the
administrative body in any system is its major nerve and essential
basis. Getting acquainted with the leadership and its role through
their definitions and types and requirements and importance in such
phase. Attempt to reach some results regarding the nature and
specificity of the organizations headed by creative leadership for
organizations ready to face crisis. Understanding of the Crisis
Management and being acquainted with its major phases.
- 20. RH 19 Monitoring and analyzing the main mechanisms of
crisis management. Getting acquainted with the way to manage the
crisis. Getting acquainted with the specificities and possibilities
of the executive management and the creative leadership.
Highlighting the role of creative leadership in crisis management
at different phases: strategic role and technical role. Raising the
potential and activating the static in the soul to continue effort
in training and education and research and practicing and applying
in order to create a successful leader first in ourselves then in
those we are responsible forthe reform operation and assessment of
its services and developing its activities become a matter of
urgency and perhaps a duty particularly since its internal and
external environment is passing through a crucial stage of its
history and existence. Working out the strategy during the next
stage after the events of January 52th 5111. Critical vision I
would like to say as a conclusion of this part (and if I may
express, the temporary exit from the scientific pattern of the
research), that the prevalence of negativity and indifference and
weak management and lack of discipline and contempt of
- 21. RH 51 science and scientists and researchers and disrespect
of systems and laws, all these are environmental secretions lacking
in their composition, refusing change and opposed to its
achievement and preventing it from happening and accepting
stagnation and backwardness. In Egypt we live an era of change and
progress, an era full of developments reinforced by technical and
technological changes, inventions and both communication and
knowledge revolutions, and an era of informationall of these
represent a very hard challenge for decision makers; this is why we
consider that getting acquainted with the change science and its
ability to achieve the change and control it in an appropriate
manner to reach the goals desired by the whole humanity is
essential and should be ignored. A change in the features of the
epoch and dealing with it has become absolutely essential and is
reflecting without any doubt the true development of the mankind
civilization. Assumptions and questions of the study In the light
of the problem and aims of the study, this study is based
essentially on the assumption that: "there is an implicit
relationship between forecasting the future and readiness to face
it through understanding the nature of the phase lived by the
country understanding the changes that occurred in the Egyptian
society following the events of January 52th 5111
- 22. RH 51 and between the capacity of the leadership to deal
with the crisis situation and efficiency of crisis management" this
study seeks to answer the following questions: What is the
leadership and what are its characteristics and specificities and
patterns and rooting scientific theories? And what is the
difference between them and the management? Nature of crisis and
terminology and connected concepts and how to manage them? What is
the role of the leadership in crisis management? What is the crisis
management? What is the strategic leadership and what are its
specificities? What is the suggested strategy during the next phase
after the events of January 52th 5111? Research Methodology The
team preparing this research has used the descriptive and analytic
method and deductive approach which describes the changes of the
study through the study of the subject of the study namely the
leadership between reality and expectation, and deduction of some
results to find a scientific and methodological mechanism to
predict the future and present a suggested strategy to find an
opportunity through which we may cross the tunnel of crisis
generated by these events.
- 23. RH 55 Tools used in this study The researchers will use a
number of major helpful tools as well as the following general
tools: A number of books and researches and specialized scientific
and academic periodicals. A number of scientific thesis A number of
cultural and social books and periodicals concerned with the
matter. In this context we will try to access to the future through
the events we are living and analyze them in a descriptive way
based on a set of tools and scientific helpful and general research
tools in order to search their depths and understand their
motivations and their causes in order to reach deductions and a set
of recommendations and proposals. Difficulties The researcher faced
a range of difficulties due to severe time constraints which led us
to take time and rights of
- 24. RH 53 the family and this had a great psychological and
social impact on the family members. The abundance of scientific
material and the weight of its scientific balance requiring us to
read a large number of books and references in order to find an
original scientific material enabling to count on it. The proposed
perception of the study We have divided the study into four
chaptersIn the first one we have addressed the leadership and
started as a first step by enumerating its definitions and specific
concepts and introduction to its study, and as a second step we
highlighted the leadership in the managing thought and types of
leadership and concluded with the third part representing the
ethics of leadership and its problems particularly in developing
countries. In the second chapter that we devoted to answer to the
special assumption of the study, the nature of crisis and the
- 25. RH 54 terminology and concepts connected thereof and the
way of managing them; and the role of leadership in managing
crisis. We divided it into three parts, the first one concerning
the definition of crisis; the second part devoted to the leadership
and its role and mechanisms in crisis management and the last part
for the creative leadership in crisis management. We dealt in
Chapter three the strategic leadership and divided the chapter into
three parts, the first one to answer the question of the research
and study regarding the meaning of strategy and what are its
characteristics and patterns and its generating scientific
theories? And the difference between it and the management? We then
briefly went on in a digression we considered important within the
context of the research and its logical narrative ideas to
highlight in the second part the comprehensive national strategy,
its importance and essence and the importance in relying upon we
concluded the chapter with a last part presenting the role of data
building for the institution and its influence on its strategic
planning. The above rooting leads inevitably to the fourth chapter
and the answer to the last question regarding the study assumption,
namely the nature of strategy during the next phase after events of
January 52th 5111, and what are its
- 26. RH 52 characteristics and what is the future vision we can
offer for such phase? And proposing a strategic vision based on
this leadership in two parts and finally concluding with a number
of results leading us to recommendations and proposals hoping they
will promote our deep-rooted organizations and benefiting to the
country our beloved Egypt. Possible vision for the contents of the
Research Preamble Importance of the research Problem of the
Research Aims of the Research Critical vision Assumptions of the
Research questions Research methodology Research tools Difficulties
faced by the Research Suggested vision of the Research Chapter I:
Leadership Part One: Definition of the leadership and introduction
to the study of leadership management and management thought. Part
Two: Leadership patterns and its ethics and problems in developing
countries.
- 27. RH 56 Chapter II: Role of the leadership in crisis
management Part One: The Crisis Part Two: Leadership and mechanisms
of crisis management Part Three: Creative leadership in crisis
management Chapter III:Strategic Leadership Part One:
StrategyContainment and planning Part Two: Comprehensive national
strategy Part Three: Database building of the Organization and its
impact on planning Part Four: Characteristics of the strategic
leadership Chapter IV: Security strategy during the next phase
after the events of January 72th 7122. Part One: Security strategy
Second Part: Strategic vision of the future Results of the Research
- Conclusion - Recommendations - Bibliography - Contents
- 28. RH 57 Finallyheritage of science in Egypt is rich with its
men the Science sparing no efforts in keeping up with its modernity
and managing its knowledge I am personally convinced that we are
about to establish a human Egyptian civilizationteaching the world
as we did beforeThe Egyptian civilization and leadership cycle is
to come, God Willing We believe this is the ineluctability of
change as it is also the aspirations and wishes of peoples. And
since God only is perfect, we apologize for any mistakes or
unintentional omissions as we only wanted to be diligent in
presenting a modest study in an attempt through which we could
express what we have deduced from the current moment we liveand to
highlight the meanings of the events and their philosophyand
specify their features and also shed light on some social
phenomenon that could help us understanding the phase and prepare
ourselves to new coming events that could be more hazy and possible
catastrophic crisisas well as the role of the wise and conscious
leadership in managing and dealing with themand deducing the future
opportunities from learned lessons and initiating anticipated
mechanisms for events to come through a strategic vision enabling
leaders to achieve scientific and knowledge roots deepening for the
next phase
- 29. RH 58 God willing, Yahya El Zent . Notice: This research
has enabled to obtain the Grade of Management Crisis Management
from the American University in Cairo on 72 August 7122. Role of
Leadership and Strategic Planning In Crisis Management Applied to
Revolution of January th Prepared and presented by
- 30. RH 59 Yahya El Zent June Dedication. To my late mother and
father, may God have mercy on themin commemoration.. To my elder
brother Dr. Saad, in gratitude To my dearest wife and mother of my
children Omar, Tareq and Nerminein gratitude To my wife's father
Dr. Mohamed Nada and wife's mother Dr. Noha Shawkyin gratitude.. To
all those who helped me in this modest assumptionconvinced by its
importance The Researcher
- 31. RH 31 Introduction We are all living now in a world of
crisis, a world of major entities and major crisis and conflicting
interests. The more interests are increasing, expanding and
conflicting, the more crisis are generated and vary and intensify.
History lessons have confirmed that at the same time where major
powers seek to impose their control and influence, there is a
definite desire of the small entities for independence and survival
and growth Such desires collide with the endeavors of major powers,
and this generates crisis.
- 32. RH 31 Furthermore in the relationship of disagreement
between administrative entities within a same economical system and
aspects of alienation existing between an individual and his work
and performance in the same employment, and between his ambitions
in his activity and requirements of behavior within a same social
context and between the openness of thought and the variety of its
schools, all this was a reason for outbreak of crisis. The majority
of administrative decision makers in our country rely upon the
administrative system in a daily manner; they are involved and
engaged in the routine life and their personal concerns, seeking to
manage their own needs, distracted from listening to the importance
of the scientific management in their administrative entities they
are responsible of and refusing any new approach to the management
science.. Hence the emergence of our crisis and their deep impact
due to the fact that the decision maker lacks knowledge of the
scientific roots and overwhelmed by random, improvised and
emotional factors; thus issuing unwise decisions leading finally to
harming the administrative entity. Despite the occurrence of crisis
is an old phenomenon, we gave it due attention only during the past
years as the crisis accelerated and diversified and intensified
through sudden transformations and vanished within time and space
that separate entities which felt that no matter how big they are
they still work and interact with a world wider than their private
world and therefore the sense of the universality of the crisis
increased whatever its specificities. We are living in a world full
of various crises: economical social cultural moral. World is a
sole entity, economically, politically, administratively,
culturally and socially connected and interacting. Any
administrative entity, whatever small sized is not immune against
the effects of crisis and events in the world. So, the use of
scientific methods as a method for dealing with crisis has become
inevitable in order to avoid destructive consequences. Therefore,
the management of crisis is a material, in-kind, moral and
spiritual one altogether It is an interactive management, permanent
and continuous, connected to the existence of a life and will of
developing progress whether for the working system or the State.
This is why the researcher considers that this scientific
management is a one with inevitable conflicting dimensions against
inertia and ossification and against negativity and backwardness,
considered as the climate in which the crisis are emerging and
interacting and expanding ignorance and fear from taking decisions
are the most important reasons leading to crisis since the majority
of crisis faced by the security organizations need a scientific and
wise management to get rid of them. The epoch we are living in is
full of crisis; the question to be asked is no more whether the
crisis is coming or not? But the question is what would do the
Institution when the crisis arrives? This is the philosophy of the
research and the person conviction of the researcher, as the term
of crisis
- 33. RH 35 ranges among terms and daily life human concepts
associated with the human being since creation of the world as
Almighty God said:" We created man in the liver [Sura of the
country: 4]. It is therefore a universal law bound by God to his
creatures in Earth enabling them to seek for satisfying their daily
and personal needs and sounding the depths of the universe in all
its aspects and components and dimensions and Man will only seek
knowledge in such elements if he falls under pressure of need and
craving desire Except that we notice that a large number of leaders
ignore this reality; they think that their organizations are immune
against crisis and that crisis cannot, whatever it is, affect or
harm the institution or surprise it at the time where this crisis
is effectively within its tissue and structure. The past two
decades was marked by the acceleration and depth and sharpness of
global transformations under which the different types of
organizations are acting, and this leads to the impossibility for
the organizations and validated traditional planning methods to
forecast in short term and benefit from previous experience in
planning for analyzing historical events. Such mechanisms are no
more able to face the challenges of the future and adapt to
successive global changes. Moreover, the relative importance of the
internal criteria established by the organizations themselves has
decreased, compared to external criteria imposed and determined by
the best global organizations. When human stray from his path and
want to reach his goal he must have a map indicating the features
of the place he is located in then he needs a compass determining
the orientations, and without a compass or a guide indicating the
path he is unable to decipher the codes of the map and his presence
becomes equal to nothing. The strategic planning becomes therefore
the compass guiding the organizations and indicating the right path
they should followSome people define it as being an organized
effort to reach decisions and systems and strategic plans to
achieve the required benefiting goals and accomplish the aims of
the institution namely the satisfaction of the needs of the
targeted category of agents. Crises have resulted in serious
economic losses and damages which affected hundreds of communities
and organizations all over the world. The crisis management became
a major obstacle in the path of these communities and organizations
and their development. The positive dealing with such crisis
requires the integration of the crisis management and risks in
development plans equally in the States and Organizations, through
relying on a developed knowledge database and awareness of the
decision makers.
- 34. RH 33 Crisis management consists in managing the possible
and attempting to control what is not controllable. As it was
proven by the past events, the crisis management is no more an
optional decision but has now an important strategic dimension
imposed by the new facts generating accumulated problems and
transformed into catastrophes followed by crises or the contrary.
It is an invitation to all leaders and managers to learn not
repeating the behaviors that generate problems and crises,
particularly those who are always sitting on hot tin; and despite
all sufferings they incur, they come once again and sit on it. The
secret in the successful leadership in hot positions and crises is
to help us promoting a personal system of early warning in addition
to use of scientific methods to make quick and decisive decisions
to prevent crises or reduce their effects and control their
movement. In this research we present simplified data and
experiences that can reach non-specialists or immersed in
behavioral and administrative sciences in the field of crisis
management. This research also presents some of the administrative
and leadership arts during adversity and crisis, as it shows us the
way of achieving the best results in a climate full of changes and
unknown and leadership in difficult conditions. Confrontation of
difficulties and crisis is not as easy as we would expect amidst
economical, political, social and religious growing and complex
troubles. In such conditions leadership requires the use of any
available means with a clear vision of ways and scientific means.
Despite all trouble I had to face while writing the subject of this
research on crises and particularly the available scientific
sources, and simplification of the signification without prejudice
to the construction, I feel however that I contributed in providing
the persons concerned by the research and study and training with
elements that could help them in their work and quest. With the
appearance of the strategic planning as the latest means of
planning in the organizations that led to the change of the ways of
planning by these organizations in developing their own
- 35. RH 34 strategies and implementing it. The strategic
management has become an essential tool for the organizations
helping them to learn and develop if they want to elaborate a type
of singularity and efficiently respond to world accelerated
changes. The term "Strategic management" is used to express the
same concept reflected by the strategic planning. The first
contemporary management scientist to deal in his management
researches, the Professor of Business History in the American
Harvard University (Alfred Chandler) is the one who dealt in his
book published on 1965 the organizational structures of the big
American Companies and proposed four types of strategies related to
development and evolution confirming that the development and
evolution of the organizational structures essentially rely upon
strategy. In year 1962 the professor of Management in the Ashton
University (Joan Woodward) prepared a research connecting the
organizational changes with the adopted technical strategy. In year
1976 (Wahlen Wahenger) exposed his concept of strategic management
through a research presenting a comprehensive pattern of strategic
management; then came the two scientists (Keiter & Trugo)
involved in the field of strategy and asserting that it is the
(driving force) representing the field of products or markets or
capabilities considered as the source of strength of the society
and constitutes the framework of its general strategy. Given that
the determination of the (driving force) contributes in formulation
of the comprehensive goals and aims of the constituent units under
the assumption that the comprehensive goals represent the link
between the comprehensive strategy and strategies of their
constituent units. The book issued on 1982 by the Counselor in
Mackenzie collection Professor (Omaya) entitled (The strategic
Mind) is probably representing one of the best researches in this
field and had a huge impact in the development of the contemporary
strategic methodology in business.
- 36. RH 32 In 1991 there was the theory of (John Thompson) on
the development of the strategic awareness, arising from diagnose
of comprehensive change of the institution connected with the
strategic formulation centered around the determination of the path
and how to reach the target He sustains in this field that the
competitiveness and distinction of performance together with
creativity and invention constitute the three connected dimensions
and in 1991 also, the Business Counselor to the (Mackenzie)
collection, Mr. Litchi Oh Mi published together with a team of
business professors a book entitled: The Strategy (underlining that
determination of goals and formulation of strategy should be done
in terms of customers and commodities and added value and not in
terms of overcoming the competitor. He concluded with a
presentation of what was called the contemporary strategy that
focuses on refinement and dedication and exploitation of the
talents of the Holding Company and its affiliated companies in
confirming the core of competence in order to concentrate the
continuity of development within the new global environment. In
year 1995, the Professor in California University (George Webb)
published a book where he criticized the Multinational companies
pointing out that they did not convert their global concepts and
have no comprehensive global strategy; he deduced after a long
study namely referring to the largest world companies (Coca Cola,
MacDonald, Canon, Volkswagen) and concluded to the necessity for
these companies to change their concepts and methods in order to
keep up with changes in the world through mutual interdependence
among branches of the company all over the world to reduce expenses
and stereotyping and benefit from self education. Use of the
strategic planning expanded on a large scale in different and
organizations and their activities and practical experiences of
strategic planning operation proved that the organizations involved
in strategic planning have better performances than organizations
without strategic planning. Strategic planning as a method of
management differs from other types of efficient methods of
management in the fact that its essential principles and methods
and theories have been developed and enriched by a mixture of field
experiments and specialized methodological academic thought
resulting from the need for developing performance of the
organizations on the long-term to ensure their survival and create
vital conditions benefiting from the available opportunities in an
efficient way, relying on strategic planning as a genius scientific
method to reach goals.
- 37. RH 36 Results of studies attempting to experiment the
nature of relationship between performance or organizations and
adoption of strategic planning indicate that there is a positive
relationship connecting them. These studies have referred to the
fact that the organizations strategically run benefited from a
performance surpassing the performance of organizations not
strategically run. Importance of the research: The importance of
the research is highlighted by the fact that the concept of the
crisis became of one the largest expending concepts in our
contemporary society, and in some way affecting all aspects of life
Since the language of the current epoch is a language of
extrapolation of the future in order to gather before it happens,
what is necessary to face it with the highest degree of efficiency
and capacity; it was necessary to have a leadership with the skills
required to manage the crisis and the capacities enabling it to
overcome the major challenges of the crisis namely the surprise,
the threat, the speed and the ambiguity. It also highlights some
concepts and considerations that should be taken into account
within the framework of the organization and be acquainted with
mechanisms preventing risks and threats faced as follows: Societies
in their different aspects should lead their orientations and
undertake organization and coordination between all categories of
the society and its activities; this leadership is reflecting in
the society and gives it its specified character, whether good of
bad. Stating the importance of the strategic planning to face
crisis and dangers to which organizations are exposed Stating the
modern approach of the strategic planning for organizations which
is a preventive approach, in other words the attempt to forecast
what will happen. Stating how to face crisis through its
management
- 38. RH 37 Stimulating officials, particularly the senior
management so they may be aware of the importance of adopting the
method of strategic planning in facing crises. Problem of the
Research The problem of the Research resides in that the person
acquainted with the crisis to which public and private
organizations are exposed in Egypt or even the State itself,
notices a great similarity in the causes of these crisis or the
existence of repeated patterns in methods facing then, in addition
to a nearly total incapability to learn from some crisis and
accumulation of lessons from which they may benefit in avoiding and
preventing crisis. In this context there might be a lack of
efficient managing leadership having the creative capacities with
talents to manage the crisis as well as mental and psychological
capacities and a cumulative experience enabling them to overcome
challenges of the crisis in order to control implications of the
crisis and managing it successfully and drawing profitable lessons,
and take advantage of some of its elements. This research also
aimed at being acquainted with the extent of practicing the
strategic planning in crisis management and its impact on facing
crisis constituting an obstacle to its growth and progress rather
than reorienting it according to our will. This may be summarized
regarding the problem of the research by asking the following
questions: To what extend is the strategic planning concept clear
in the mind of the leadership? What are the factors to be taken
into account when carrying out the strategic planning? And what are
the mechanisms and their availability to the leaders in charge of
it? It is therefore possible to say that the strategic planning is
one of the means to prevent crisis and one of the paths of
searching for future opportunities To such extent that we may ask
the following question what is the value of the sound planning in
light of the absence of whoever enjoys the distinctive elements
vision and capability to make a decision and apply it and the
courage to issue it so that it could
- 39. RH 38 grasp the components of the futurefirmly controlling
without neglect or outbid the tools and mechanisms of work and
enjoying personal characteristics able to influence and convince
others and requesting their involvement and change of ideas to
adapt with the requirements of the current facts and expectation of
future?...Planning without leadership means chaosas we will see
hereafter. In connection with the assumption of the research, the
crisis management is a unique business operation; as the
organization is exposed to an unexpected event whose premises are
often absent despite the fact of its accumulative causes and it
needs decisive measures and quick decisions consistent with the
gravity of the developing situation and consequently the management
holds the control of the initiative in leading events and
influencing them and orienting them according to the requirements
of the situationsto avoid damages or to seize an opportunity. The
leadership skill we were referring to resides in imagining the
possibility of changing the crises and its dangers to an
opportunity to liberate the creative capacities that exploits the
crisis as an opportunity to remodel the conditions and find wise
solutions; no doubt that the positive orientation pave the way to
manage the crisis and live and creative interaction with the great
faced challenge to the extent enabling it to transform the risk
into an opportunity that can be exploited and change the
discouragement of the ordeal into a climate stimulating the
creative efforts. This is the reason behind our assumption of: "the
role of leadership and strategic planning in crisis management;
because I am convinced as a junior researcher, that a belief is
reinforced by the knowledge of the ancient world including its
successful patterns and is reflected by the fact that the
leadership enjoying a strategic vision and moreover has the
capacity of designing skillfully a scenario for the future and
having the elements of producing leaders enjoying charismatic
personalities and accumulated experiences and open minded and vast
culture and a basis of
- 40. RH 39 morality and valuesis by all means a leadership
capable of managing crisis and even exploiting them to the interest
of the organization or the institution or the State governing it.
There is no reverse pattern we could present as an evidence of the
soundness of our convictions From the events of January 52th 5111
we may say that we had leaders who lost the capacity of dealing
with the crisis because they lost the compassthe inevitable result
unfortunately the new leaders are still unable neither to manage
the crisis nor to take advantage of its results the matter concerns
the equation of a country we are trying to decipher its strange
code. The management within any organization is always reflecting a
dynamical attitude reacting with the movement and containing
complex attitudes. Management seeks to achieve specific goals
within the context of various conditions some of which help it and
push it forward (opportunity) and some others inhibits its action
and constitute restrictions (crisis). The essential basis in this
context is summarized by the fact that this complex attitude,
associated with a high degree of ambiguity and hesitation requires
from the Organization or the Institution special capabilities with
double orientation; first it has to exploit the available
opportunities at a high degree of efficiency and effectiveness and
simultaneously seeking to avoid dangers and obstacles or
elaborating a specific strategy to adapt with. On such ground it
appears that the strategic planning is going towards building
specific strategies aiming at establishing mechanisms capable of
acting to use the available elements in the light of various
dangers and threats to achieve the principal targets of the
Organization; we point out here that this is among the most
important priorities of the leadership when dealing with a crisis,
on attempting to prevent or abort of manage its elements and their
impact. The aim of building up such specific strategies is oriented
to the achievement of the three following results: Activate the
ability of the organization in using its available capabilities in
an efficient manner leading to the implementation of the set
targets.
- 41. RH 41 Reduce the capacity of risks to restrict its work
whether by facing them or suppressing or freezing their effects on
the strategy of the organization towards development. Reinforcing
its capacity of efficient management of the changes falling under
its direct control. The researcher considers that the strategic
planning is one of the major elements of management of
organizations currently and the paroxysm in the results of the
thinking phase prior to the implementation of any action and
reflects the vision of the leadership, because the strategic
planning is a chain of big and sound decisions that are forecasting
the future to achieve the general set up targets. Thereforein order
to achieve a success in the strategic planning it is necessary to
establish a strategy including: Determination of the major and
clear targets, and arrange the agenda of priorities and provide a
great amount of material, human and judicial possibilities after
carrying out a good assessment of the general situation and
prediction of the future eventualities and various conditions,
provided it is marked by comprehensiveness, realism, follow-up and
that they are supported by mechanisms of evaluation and
self-assessment. From what has been said above, we conclude that
the topic of strategic planning if among the most important matters
since it is an organized effort to reach decisions and essential
activities and focusing on the future regarding the nature of the
organization, its action and the reason of its action, etc, and an
effective management tool helping the organization to implement its
work in a better way under all conditions to which it is exposed,
and focusing on all concerned persons to achieve the target itself,
and assessment and analyzing the orientation of the organization
and responding to its changing environment. Furthermore, the
assessment of the organization after implementation of the
strategic planning is the best way to respond to the dynamical
conditions of the environment. What is the impact of the strategic
planning in facing crisis?
- 42. RH 41 What is the extent of clarity of the concept of
crisis management compared with the concept of management in crisis
or even handling crisis? Aims of the research - Understanding the
meaning of Crisis Management and acquaintance with its major
phases. - Specifying and analyzing the most important mechanisms of
crisis management. - Identification of the characteristics and
capacities of the creative leadership and also the traditional
leadership. - Focusing on the role of the creative leadership in
crisis management through its various stages: the strategic role
and the technical role. - Stir the potential and activating the
static in the souls to continue efforts in training, education,
research, practice and application in order to create a successful
leader in ourselves and then in those who are relying on us. -
Identify the concepts of strategic planning and crisis management -
Stating the main factors that should be taken into account when
carrying out strategic planning. - How can the strategic planning
face the crises? - Reaching some results regarding the nature and
specificity of the organizations headed by the creative leadership
for the organizations ready to face crisis. - Offering some
suggested strategies to activate the role of leadership in crisis
management. Assumption and interrogations of the research - In the
light of the problem and aims of the research, this study is based
essentially on the assumption of: existence of a relationship
between the prevision of the future and preparation thereto through
strategic planning and between the ability of the leadership to
deal with the crisis situation and efficiency of the crisis
management: - This research seeks to answer to the following
questions:
- 43. RH 45 What is the concept of a crisis? What are the types
of crisis? What are the characteristics and phases of a crisis? How
to face a crisis and to plan for it? What are the characteristics
of the strategic planning in the organizations? What are the major
obstacles to the strategic planning in the organizations? What is
the effect of the strategic planning on the crisis management? What
is the extent of participation of the executive leadership in
organizations in setting up the strategic planning in this field?
What are the requirements for the success of the strategic planning
in these organizations in order to raise the efficiency of
organizational performance and to limit crisis? Methodology of the
Research: - In this research, the descriptive and analytical
methodology was used to describe the changes of the study namely
the crisis management and strategic planning and strategic
leadershipand accordingly the analysis of these major and further
changes to reach the results of the study We also relied upon some
references and scientific researches concerned with this topic. The
suggested plan for this research is: Introduction
- 44. RH 43 Importance of the research Problem of the Research
Aims of the Research Interrogations of the Research Methodology of
the research Chapter One: Leadershiptheoretical introduction - Part
One: Leadership - Part Two: Characteristics and talents of the
leader - Part Three: Strategic leadership and its characteristics
Chapter Two: Strategic Planning - Part One:
Conceptsrequirementsadvantagesjustificationspatterns - Part Two:
Crisis Management Chapter Three: The CrisisTheoretical introduction
- Part One: Crisis its nature its dimensions its characteristics -
Part Two: Crisis Management Chapter Four: - Part One: Strategic
leadership of the crisis - Part Two: Role of the creative strategic
leadership in crisis management Chapter Five: The Revolutionary
crisis - Part One: Revolution of January 52th 5111 the causes -
Part Two: Stages of the revolutionary crisis.
- 45. RH 44 Results Conclusion Recommendations Bibliography
- 46. RH 42 Philosophy of Change How can it be.. Grasping future
opportunities? Name of the author: Yahia El Zont
- 47. RH 46 Grasping future opportunities
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- 48. RH 47 GRASPING FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES Written and prepared by
Yahya El Zont
- 49. RH 48 PREAMBLE We live an epoch of raging conflicts and
major organizational failures, an epoch combining painful endings
and hopeful beginnings. An epoch where everything that seemed
deeply rooted is starting to get old and dying while another thing
is seeking to come up. Or, if we refer to the words of the former
Czech President and playwright "Vaclav Havel": "There are good
reasons suggesting that the modern era has ended and there are many
things showing that we are going through a transitional period and
it seems that something is on its way to disappear and that
something else arises in pain; as if there is something that
crumbles, disintegrates and consumes itself, while another thing
not yet not clearly distinct arises from emerges from rubble, and
the Arab Individual that will ride the horse to win the race
Looking forward to the 51st Centuryhe should read this bookthe new
century requires a new persona knightintrepid and thinker. A knight
able to debate...to maneuver..a leader seeking for meanings and
thoughtsopening his mind and heart for renewal and innovation. The
new century needs a new mandaringjumping barriersentering new
tracks. A leaderoptimistic and interacting thinking electronically,
a leader relying on people trusting them employing global quality
methods, engineering
- 50. RH 49 management and data techniques. A leader concerned by
future more than formalities. Importance and aims of the book: ]
Philosophy of change When we look at the world map and see the
continents stable and forming a global island surrounded by water
from everywhere, we discover the magnitude of the role required by
the major changes Earth was not divided in that manner and without
the trembling, earthquakes and cracks the Earth would have been a
single mass and we would not have seen this map as it is known
nowadays.
- 51. RH 21 Madbuly El-Saghir
- 52. RH 21 And the cultural changes need in turn earthquakes to
remodel the human civilization and draw the brightest and noblest
colors and granting it elements of hope and determination. And when
States are facing the growing challenges and seek to engage into
the future, the intellectual earthquake becomes a must, as it
requires a new modeling of the mind and definition of possible and
impossible changes and previous concepts and criterion of thought
generated by these challenges regress this earthquake is
- 53. RH 25 the element renewing the vitality of minds and
contributes in sorting ideas and masterfully constructs the bridge
through which societies move towards future. Thus, the future of
mankind now depends on the ability of existing organizations and
societies to respond to and interact with the earthquake of minds
and building such capacity is what we called "Management of the
Future" and consequently grasping its opportunities. Philosophy of
building and manage the future is a strategic in the programs for
developing societies provided in this book to build the
intellectual capacity of the individual and societies in building
their bright and promising future based on the creative values and
scientific thought and reconstruction and justice and linkage and
arming them with the tools of civilizational change. We are trying
to work for the development of building the change of science and
to be among the first to write in Arabic in these fields and to
establish new theories and visions on the nature of changes and
forecasting the future. This awareness of the importance of the
future management led to strategic coalitions between a group of
human sciences (such as management and sociology and psychology)
which will lead to the fact that these sciences and theories will
be an integral part of the future sciences. This book relies on
some scientific and practical patterns of development, as its
theories are subjected to experiment and benefit from successful
assessments. Ideas and theories were discussed with specialists
professors of Arabic and international universities and activists
on site and specialists in similar field of research.
- 54. RH 23 The Aim To provide a methodology for youth thought
and a real stimulation for change of rooting under a scientific
background building the capacities of societies towards cultural
change. We hope that this book will be a guide for the change
lovers and cultural transformation whatever the ideological
differences of readers, their religion, ethnic groups or
nationalities. The Purposes 1. Dissemination of the culture of
change and developed thinking methodologies and civilizational
changing strategies. 5. Providing the scientific tools to
contribute in occasioning cultural revolutions in the world of
sociological action. 3. Providing consultations to people and
organizations seeking to develop their societies. Its role is to
develop thinking methodologies in general. Even when tools of
change and development exist in a society, the mind is still
reluctant to use them or is inhabited with some thoughts preventing
change; wright thinking methodologies may exist but need support
and deepening. Thus the importance of this book resides on
developing thinking methodologies with support of what is useful
and refinement of what requires treatment and eradication of what
is not fitting with a transformational mind. This topic is among
one of the major studied themes and includes researches connected
with the provision of the mind with developed thinking
methodologies qualifying the societies to find futures appropriate
responses to faced challenges;
- 55. RH 24 consequently theses researches focus on elaborating
the general cognitive map and the essential intellectual premises
and methods and thinking talents to anyone who may confront the
change operation. Use of the latest clarifying scientific
techniques achieved by the modern world. Thus the research material
exists from its frozen pattern to a model with which masses
interacts and demands in order to arise concern for the future
sciences. Did you think about your future? Did you meditate the
opportunities you can exploit? Do you know yourself and your
capacities which are the secret of your achievements? Have you
meditated the type of persons you are dealing with every day? Have
you forecasted the difficulties you will face under the new world
systemand the markets opening their doors to all imaginations and
minds?
- 56. RH 22 This book says that the authentic Arabic minds are
able to continue the path until the end and can also winI hope,
dear reader that you will be one of those knights.
- 57. RH 26 Introduction No doubt that the question of change has
become one of the major topics in our current world, a world of
rapid changes, a world of non-stop process where those who do not
follow the path are delaying. Since we are part of such process and
that man is the creature to whom God has granted the world, it is
absolutely necessary to be influenced and respond to such changes
provided to protect our cultural, historical and religious
specificities so that we are able to preserve our identities and
not to delay in the process of progress and world we live in; we
must also reacty with positive spirituality between influencing and
being influenced. Change and preparation to it must be
comprehensive and include human necessities and requirements and
also include all areas of life with their various dimensions. No
doubt that regarding the principle, the change is made by human and
for humans and what they interact with, accordingly human is the
major axis and the essential tool in the same time in the changing
operation in order to achieve the aims of human kind. We therefore
consider that seriousness and aware will and goodwill are
indispensable for change with a balanced management; because the
will of change is the management of the human essence with all its
specificities; therefore it is essential to deal wisely and behave
moderately.
- 58. RH 27 Necessity of the change: No doubt that change is
extremely important; its a necessity for life itself; therefore it
must be a permanent phenomenon in all fields in our economic,
social and political lives and according to the following basics:
1. Productive interaction with the principle of change 5. Renewal
and vitality in the application process 3. Grasping opportunities
of creativity in all areas of life 4. Concern in global development
including the various innovations 2. Supporting and encouraging
desire for development and promotion 6. Training in reform
processes and problem-solving 7. Strategic concern to production,
through investment and distribution 8. Using all technological
methods and means in changing processes 9. Adaptation to the world
innovations 11. Following the priorities of the stage with balanced
connection between variables Means of change: - We currently need
absolutely getting acquainted with the science of change science;
this need requires us to determine the dimensions.
- 59. RH 28 - Carrying out the change requires awareness of its
importance to understand and explain and sensitize people
responsible for change. Those who prefer to hang on the present and
the past may represent a major obstacle in front of any reform
effort adopted by any institution in its planning, which requires
inevitably a clear orientation of these people regarding acceptance
and management of change. - Organizing short training sessions for
members of these institutions if change concerns institutions so
that such training sessions enable them to get united around a
common goal and vision and consequently the means to adopt in
performing their mission in addition to determining methods through
which they may provide each other with its experience. - It is
necessary to study modern systems and management structures
particularly what was written and practically
- 60. RH 29 experimented during the past two decades because they
contain a clear vision of the weakness of old methods offset by
innovations at all levels and human communities. Progressing
vision: Propagation of negativity, disinterest, management
weakness, lack of discipline, mockery of science and scientists,
disrespect of systems and laws, are environmental secretions
lacking in their compositions, refusing change and opposing it and
preventing their achievement and accepting inertia and
backwardness. We are living an epoch of change, an epoch of
efficiency and rise, an epoch of continuous innovations supported
by technical and technological changes and inventions and also the
knowledge and communication revolutionsthe epoch of dataall
constituting a terrible challenge to decision makers; we therefore
consider that acquaintance with the change science and its
importance and capacity to produce change and control it is
appropriate to achieve expected hopes of human kind and inevitable
and should not be ignored. Change has become one of the
characteristics of the epoch and dealing with it has also become
extremely important and no doubt reflects the reality of human
civilization evolution.
- 61. RH 61 Yahya El-Zent Notice:This book is entitled the
Philosophy of change - Grasp of future opportunities and is now
available on market. Perception of an initial proposal for the
sections of the book: Chapter I: Value of life and life as a value
Part I: Performance Art in a future perspective Part II: Black Hole
Part III:Confrontation of the epoch Chapter II: People are two
types; of which type are you? Part I: Know yourself
- 62. RH 61 Part II: Foundation of the personal activity Part
III:Permanency of business and its preservation Chapter III:
Conflict of generations Part I: Trees come out from seeds Part II:
Knight without horse Part III:Training Chapter IV: Who are you?
Part I: Keys of the personality Part II: Patterns of personalities
Part III:Your alignments to your characteristics Conclusion
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