Les entreprises face á l’urgence: y-a-t-il encore place pour l’anticipation?

Abstract

We are living with a new relationship to time. Urgency, instantaneity, immediacy, induced by the dictatorship of time which regulates the economy, have pervaded professional life, creating confusion between what is urgent and what is important, what is secondary and what is essential. In economies working with “tight flows”, individuals themselves become like consumer products of very short life, which enterprises try to make immediately profitable and rotate quickly. Pathologies of “hyperactivity” and “exhaustiveness” depressions are direct consequences of this state of affairs.