Creating a resilient growth strategy is the key leadership challenge of our epoch. Unsplash Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum, and Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company In the past year, leaders of public and private-sector organizations have been confronted with a lifetime’s worth of disruption and crises. Global conflict, energy uncertainty, food shortages, accelerating inflation and severe climate events rocked a world still unsettled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, leaders now recognize that our societies and organizations must function in an environment defined by continuous natural and man-made disruptions. These disruptions cannot be addressed in a reactive manner as they arise one after the other and reverberate through our fragile ecosystems and stressed networks. An isolated, short-term focus on a discrete recovery from every crisis is not a feasible path — there aren’t enough resources in the world to do that. We need to arrive at a longer-term perspective, a resilient growth strategy . This is the key leadership challenge of our epoch. Building a resilient growth strategy We must strengthen the resilience of our societies and institutions beyond a survival capacity, to enable long-term, sustainable and inclusive growth. To stand still is to lose precious […]