Morten Efferbach

Open the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2026, PwC's Global CEO Survey, Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trends, Korn Ferry's CEO & Board Survey, and McKinsey's State of Organizations - five separate research houses, five separate methodologies - and you land on the same conclusion five times over. Boards are not short of information about the problem. Geoeconomic confrontation is now a named top-tier global risk. 42% of CEOs call keeping pace with technology their biggest concern,...

This blog argues three things. First, that the gap is not a shortage of capable leaders, but a shortage of leaders with working knowledge across the domains that now decide whether a strategy holds. Second, that the fix is not six new experts, but a single leader who can ask the right question in each domain and pull the answers together into one decision - what we call Governance 2.0 in the book Decision Readiness. Third, that the nine Decision Readiness workbooks and the book together...

On 25 August, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow. According to the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Politico and RFE/RL, the message was blunt: Russia should not test NATO's Article 5 by targeting Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania - not with a drone, not with a cyberattack, not with a limited land incursion. The US intelligence assessment behind the visit reportedly concludes that Putin, within the next few years, may try to probe NATO's willingness to defend every inch of...