{"id":4149,"date":"2026-09-09T05:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:01:31","slug":"failure-is-a-data-point-executives-say-flexibility-beats-certainty-in-a-turbulent-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4149","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Failure is a data point&#8217;: Executives say flexibility beats certainty in a turbulent world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/55514063862_79d05c3938_o-e1788892233885.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Business leaders can\u2019t predict their way through today\u2019s turbulent environment\u2014and should stop trying.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cInstead of trying to predict the future, it\u2019s probably better off to really enhance the muscle of adaptability,\u201d Carol Liao, chair of BCG Greater China, said at the Fortune Leaders Forum on Sept. 8. And in an era when AI is commoditizing knowledge, she added, \u201cjudgment does have a premium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liao spoke alongside Chanda Beppu, president of Starbucks Asia Pacific, and Feroz Sheikh, chief information and digital officer at Syngenta Group, and all three arrived at the same prescription: Leaders should focus less on forecasting and more on building organizations that can change course quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s executives face several challenges at once, Liao said. \u201cThere are a few anxieties Chinese leaders have,\u201d she noted. \u201cGlobalization anxiety, AI anxiety, as well as generational shift\u2026 It\u2019s quite a lot for leaders to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t always create certainty about what\u2019s to come,\u201d said Beppu. \u201cWe can create clarity about what matters most to our business and to our teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheikh echoed his fellow panelist to suggest that \u201cthe way to deal with all of these complexities is to build that muscle of being able to adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that companies must not be afraid to fail when attempting to navigate uncertainties. To fail is a \u201cdata point,\u201d said Sheikh. \u201cIt\u2019s safe to fail, and it\u2019s not a blip on your career.\u201d He encouraged businesses to create a \u201cculture of experimentation,\u201d and see short term failure as an opportunity to learn for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syngenta needs to be adaptable this year. Heat stress in Europe wiped out almost 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of agricultural production this year, Sheikh said. \u201cThese are shocks that companies have to be prepared to absorb.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Going global<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Chinese companies are also navigating a generational handover. As the first generation of entrepreneurs adapts to the demands of international business, these companies are moving beyond simply selling products abroad and starting to behave like true multinationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liao pointed to China\u2019s EV sector as an example of this transformation. Car companies like BYD are building factories around the world and knitting together global supply chains, either bringing Chinese suppliers with them or growing local ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGlobalization has been going on for Chinese companies for 20, 30 years. But for a long time, it\u2019s been a trading model. It\u2019s about exporting the products, exporting the capacity to the world,\u201d she said. But now, \u201cglobalization, in a way, [has] become localization,\u201d she said, requiring a more flexible approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That shift demands a new leadership style, Liao said: from \u201ccommand and control, symphony-type leadership to a more jazz leadership\u2014more distributed decision making, more experimentation, more tolerance for failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said that her consultancy firm sees AI being used creatively by companies. \u201cMany of our clients find AI helps even more when they go global \u2026 because the intelligence on the market can be gathered quickly. The supply chain can be managed more efficiently,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she cautioned that technology is the easy part. \u201cSeventy percent [of AI transformation] is really about people: changing organization, ways of working, incentives, dealing with organizational inertia. That\u2019s a hard problem,\u201d Liao said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTechnology often is not the problem. The problem is often how you run this human transformation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beppu, from Starbucks, also sees AI\u2019s value in how it affects people. \u201cWhere [AI] enhances our culture and our purpose, where it removes friction for our baristas,it\u2019s valuable to us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Failure #data #point #Executives #flexibility #beats #certainty #turbulent #world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders can\u2019t predict&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5635,2124,7070,541,633,4487,7069,756,2125,160,3187,7068,7071,51],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-beats","tag-boston-consulting-group","tag-certainty","tag-data","tag-executives","tag-failure","tag-flexibility","tag-fortune-500-companies","tag-fortune-leaders-forum","tag-point","tag-starbucks","tag-syngenta","tag-turbulent","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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