Finding Your New Strategic Center

HBR's Executive Agenda for June 2026 calls on CEOs to recalibrate their strategic center amid compounding uncertainty — arguing that leaders who cling to prior strategic anchors without stress-testing them against new realities are the most exposed to blind-spot failures. The piece frames the task as a deliberate rehearsal exercise: identifying which strategic assumptions are still load-bearing and which have been quietly invalidated. For SEA founders and mid-market CEOs, this offers a decision-rehearsal lens directly applicable to board strategy sessions.