Summary of COVID-19: The Great Reset

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Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret’s ” COVID-19: The Great Reset ” designed to offer an in-depth look at this book so you can appreciate it even more. Smart Reads is responsible for this summary content and is not associated with the original author in any way.

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Klaus Schwab, based in Germany, is the founder of the World Economic Forum and current chairman. He established the World Economic Forum to promote the idea that companies should work to serve not only shareholders but all stakeholders if they want to attain long-term growth and success. Schwab’s background is in economics and engineering, and he holds a degree in public administration. He also holds a professorship at the University of Geneva. Most recently, he has authored the books
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (published in 2016) and
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (published in 2018).

Thierry Malleret, based in France, is a managing partner at the Monthly Barometer, which provides predictive analyses to business leaders, private investors, and other decision-makers. At the World Economic Forum, he founded the Global Risk Network and currently runs its Programme team. Malleret’s background is in economics and history, and his professional experience has spanned investment banking, academia, think tanks, and government. He also has authored a number of novels and nonfiction books (in business and academia).

Written in June 2020,
COVID-19: The Great Reset is a speculative exercise meant to consider the varying interactions of global phenomena in the aftermath of the covid pandemic. How will technology, society, attitudes toward the environment and toward health and wellbeing, and economic events interact with the various policy, business, and individual decisions made around the world? The authors explore such questions and develop an idea of the future that they would like to see arise from this moment, suggesting that this is a once-in-an-era opportunity to become more intentional in our daily habits and behaviors and, ultimately, in the world we build. With regard to the pandemic, they claim that there has been nothing quite like it in modern history, that we should expect to be dealing with its fallout for years to come, and that it will cause some things that were previously familiar and normal to change forever. As the crisis creates enormous economic disruption and spurs volatility in many ways (socially, politically, and geopolitically), the authors expect our situation to also raise deep concerns about the environment and expand technology’s reach (both for good and for bad) into our lives. They also point out that these kinds of existential crises can also facilitate introspection that leads to transformation.