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Lead through uncertainty

Volatility is no longer the exeception – it's the norm.

From rapid technological shifts to geopolitical upheaval and the climate crisis, today’s leaders face a world where disruption arrives without warning. The latest issue of Dialogue explores how organizations can not only withstand this unpredictability but transform it into forward momentum.

Inside, we examine how leaders can harness experimentation, align tough choices with long-term purpose, invest in wellbeing and make smarter plans in a future defined by change.

 

Featured Content

Balancing Costs with Humanity

Dr. Sharmla Chetty argues that smart cost-cutting is a growth strategy – when leaders balance costs with care and purpose. Align tough choices to the long-term mission, handle change transparently, and turn efficiency into fuel for reinvention.

The Upside of Uncertainty

Scott D. Anthony shows how leaders can thrive amid unpredictability with three practices: rethink time horizons, prune to focus, and treat intelligent failures as fuel. The result: organizations that turn ambiguity into advantage.

The Experimental Organization

Sharique Hasan makes the case for learning over prediction. By embedding rigorous experimentation – supported by the right tech, talent, design, and leadership – organizations make better decisions faster and scale what works with evidence, not intuition.

Co-Creator in Chief

Singapore's Institute of Banking and Finance CEO Carolyn Neo discusses the transformation of the financial sector to come at unprecedented scale and speed in the next five years through the mainstreaming of sustainable finance, the advent of AI and Gen AI . She shares refreshing perspectives on partnership, “When we’re shaping new initiatives, we have to ask, how do we co-shape its parameters and co-develop solutions?”

"Good leaders recognize that engagement must rise even as budgets fall. You don't just manage the present – you cast vision for the future."

 
 - Mauricio "Mau" Espinosa, founder and president of G20 Inc. and author of LET It Happen: How to deal successfully with change through logic, emotion and tactics

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