Business leaders continue to devote significant attention to geopolitical uncertainty and its effects on their organizations. In the face of new tariffs, changing trade dynamics, and other disruptions, CEOs are taking a range of actions to both protect their companies from shocks and create business value. These include establishing dedicated geopolitical nerve centers and adapting their business models to operate globally in a fragmenting world. This week, we look at how leaders can guide their companies toward growth and value creation amid rapid shifts in geoeconomic conditions.

RAISING RESILIENCE

As businesses of all kinds grapple with geopolitical uncertainty, technology leaders face the especially heightened challenge of keeping up with their industry’s breakneck pace of change. But tech executives can turn disruption into opportunity by making five resilience-building moves to help companies flourish in difficult times. According to Senior Partners Brendan Gaffey and Tarek Elmasry and their coauthors, those critical moves are determining which markets to compete in, driving business model innovation, linking talent to value, dynamically allocating capital, and taking a programmatic approach to M&A. “A savvy enterprise can leverage market, trade, and technological disruptions to overtake its rivals—provided it has practiced the skills it needs to thrive when long-standing rules no longer apply,” the authors say.

Lead by seeking growth amid disruption.