Navigating in Times of Change. In just a few years, almost everything will be different: what we do, how we do it, and why we do it; how we produce and consume, how we work, how we learn and research - and how we live. How do we handle this in economics, politics, and society? Disruptions create opportunities by displacing the old and creating the new. Management, as Malik understands it, is the societal function of harnessing these opportunities. The new world discussed in this book is still unknown in many dimensions. It is emerging through the great transformation, which the author has referred to since 1997 as the historically likely largest societal transformation process. This transformation liberates society from its ossified organizations and opens pathways to new thinking and better functioning. A book for.