In the past year, leaders have been confronted with a lifetime’s worth of disruption and crises: global conflict, energy uncertainty, food shortages, accelerating inflation, and severe climate events. Natural and human-made disruptions will only persist. To enable long-term, sustainable, and inclusive growth, today’s business leaders and policy makers must strengthen resilience beyond a survival capacity. In this month’s first featured story, a collaborative white paper from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum (WEF), Bob Sternfels, global managing partner of McKinsey, and Børge Brende, president of WEF, lay out the key elements of the resilience agenda and actions that the public and private sectors must undertake to strengthen global resilience. Our second featured story offers an integrated, broadly additive framework for global companies that seek to distill geopolitical complexity and to structure their strategic conversations amid a fragmenting global order. Other highlights in this month’s issue include the following topics:
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