Introduction

Abstract

There is an increasing realization of the massive societal changes and transformations that are reflected in the new realities of the postindustrial information/knowledge era. These changes touch the lives of every person, family, community, and nation and define the future of humanity. However, we are entering the twenty-first century with organizations designed during the nineteenth. Improvement or restructuring of existing systems, based on the design of the industrial machine age, does not work any more. Only a radical and fundamental change of perspectives and purposes, and the redesign of our organizations and social systems, will satisfy the new realities and requirements of our era.