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The More Uncertain the World, the More You Need a Strategy

AI and geopolitical turmoil have convinced many executives that the future is too unpredictable to plan for. Laurence Lehmann-Ortega, strategy professor at HEC Paris and co-author of Strategor, argues the reverse: permanent crisis is precisely why strategy matters again, on one condition, that you stop forecasting the future and start preparing for several of them at once.
 

  • Leading When the World Stops Following Its Own Rules

    Executives want to know what happens next in Iran, in Washington, in the markets. Professor Jeremy Ghez argues that the real skill in a broken world is no longer predicting what happens next, but spotting which of the assumptions that made them successful have stopped working.

  • Execution fails before it starts, and most leaders never see it coming

    Strategy execution is a leadership problem, not a methodology problem. And it starts long before the plan is launched.

  • "Every Custom Program Is a Research Field That Doesn't Know It Yet"

    What do I do on Monday morning when I get back to the office?” It all begins with this one simple question. It is the question that Emmanuel Coblence, Professor of Leadership and Academic Director of several custom programs at HEC Paris, uses to close every custom program.