The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future

How the turmoil of recent years gives leaders an unprecedented opportunity to redesign global strategies and systems and to remobilize toward a smarter, more resilient, and equitable future.

How can leaders faced with tremendous global upheaval create more resilient and trustworthy systems? In The Great Remobilization, Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse (along with research partner Dan Zehr) diagnose tectonic shifts in the global economy with an eye toward designing a smarter “operating system” for the world. Through their FLP-IT (forces, logic, phenomena, impact, and triage) framework for strategic leadership, the authors chart a path forward, providing guidance for a new breed of “design activist leader.” Focusing on key tectonic shifts they call the Five Cs—COVID and pandemic management, the cognitive economy and crypto, cybersecurity, climate change and carbon management, and China—they examine the implications that new forces and logics will have on countries, organizations, and individuals.

Drawing from one hundred interviews and conversations with top-level executives, entrepreneurs, policymakers, diplomats, generals, scholars, and other leading experts from around the world, the authors show how to create new inclusive visions with the aim of rebuilding the trust that will allow for both human and economic growth. Insightful and forward-thinking, The Great Remobilization powerfully illustrates the rare opportunity that we have in this historic moment to actively redesign our fragile, overpressurized global systems and develop new strategies and leadership approaches for the future. Authored by three scholar-practitioners, their synthetic perspectives and insights are at once rooted in deep research and focused on relevance for leaders and their organizations.

About the Author

Olaf Groth is Professional Faculty for Strategy, Futures and Innovation in the Business & Public Policy group at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Faculty Director for the Future of Technology program at Berkeley Executive Education; and Professor of Practice for Global Strategy, Innovation & Futures at Hult International Business School. A global strategist and entrepreneurial tech executive, he is also CEO of advisory think tank and concept design studio Cambrian.ai and coauthor of Solomon's Code and The AI Generation. As such he is a frequent media commentator and global network member at the World Economic Forum.

Mark Esposito is Professor of Economics at Hult International Business School, Professor of Public Policy at Mohamed Bin Rashid School of Government, and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is a Harvard social scientist with affiliations with the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School, at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies. He has been affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter. He advises governments in the GCC and Eurasia regions and is a global expert of the World Economic Forum. He co-founded Nexus FrontierTech, a Machine Learning research lab and The Circular Economy Alliance, an EdTech firm.

Terence Tse is Professor of Finance at Hult International Business School, Affiliate Professor at ESCP Business School, and Visiting Professor at Cotrugli Business School. He is cofounder and executive director of the AI company Nexus FrontierTech. He also cofounded Excellere, a think tank. A highly sought out speaker, he is coauthor of The AI Republic and Understanding How the Future Unfolds, and the author of Corporate Finance: The Basics.