Strategy

Some of the most expensive strategic blind spots aren’t hidden at all. The information may already exist. The harder question is why some information changes a strategic decision while other information remains peripheral until events make it impossible to ignore.

The quality of an outcome is limited by the perception available when a decision is made. Expanding the field of view can change the choices available before decisions become difficult to reverse.

Tariffs create immediate economic pressure, but repeated tariffs can have a longer-term effect that changes how countries, businesses and markets respond. The leverage created by pressure can weaken over time as systems learn how to absorb it. How do leaders interpret it? As a problem to contain, or as a review of vulnerabilities, dependence and relationships?