Transformational Leadership

THE GLOBALISATION PROCESS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TOR TANZAIA

Address by Ambassador Ami Mpungwe to the CEO-ROUNDTABLE, KILIMANJARO HYATT REGENCY HOTEL, DAR ES SALAAM, 9th OCTOBER 2012.

INTRODUCTION

May I begin by stating the obvious and say: the World has changed! The end of Cold war and significant developments in Science and Technology, over the last few years, particularly those brought about by the convergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), have already transformed the world that we knew, not too long ago, beyond recognition.

They have re-defined almost everything that distinguishes and separates the human from the rest of the animal kingdom. This change and transformation process is engulfing the entire world and is already impacting heavily on systems of political and social organization, governance and wealth creation across the world. And this change and transformation process is happening at an alarming speed. As a result, even the nature CHANGE itself has also CHANGED!

Any attempt, therefore, that seeks to understand the fundamentals of this change process and its implication to the nations of the world, including Tanzania, should, in essence, begin by developing an objective and in-depth understanding of the nature and character of this change process and the New World that is fast evolving.

In that regard, Thomas Kuhn, the famous historian who has done a lot of work on the concept of paradigm and paradigm shifts, has this to say, "You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it'

THE DRIVERS AND DYNAMICS OF THE ON-GOING GLOBAL CHANGE

The journey towards the “right metaphor”, at the very beginning, would reveal that at the core of this paradigm shifting process, there are five key drivers that characterize the on-going global changes, namely:

1) HUMANISATION: OPTIMISING HUMAN FREEDOM AND CAPACITY

It is characterized by a profound commitment to the universal values of...