Rising costs, workforce instability, shifting regulations, and macroeconomic headwinds are converging in ways that feel both unpredictable and unrelenting. (Adobe Stock)

In more than three decades of advising businesses, I’ve never seen a time quite like this. The challenges our clients face today are unprecedented; rising costs, workforce instability, shifting regulations, and macroeconomic headwinds are converging in ways that feel both unpredictable and unrelenting.

This is the world of VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. First coined by the U.S. Army War College, the term has since become a shorthand for describing exactly what business leaders are experiencing in today’s environment.

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