It’s okay to be either a leader or an informed and aware follower; you can achieve success as either one. But what you don’t want to be in this age of anxiety — in truth, a very difficult period for individuals — is someone who is merely wondering what is happening.![]()
Art Kleiner (kleiner_art@strategy-business.com) is editor-in-chief of strategy+business. A new edition of his 1996 book on the history of corporate change, The Age of Heretics, will be published by Wiley Books in 2008.

