The Three Regimes of Optionality
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Frontier, Fortress and Field
For decades, the capacity to act, adapt, and reorganize was embedded in relatively stable systems—global supply chains, predictable institutions, expanding markets, and a broadly coherent geopolitical order. The future, while uncertain, remained structurally open. Strategy operated within that openness. That condition is now eroding. Climate systems are destabilising. Ecological thresholds are being crossed. Energy and material flows are becoming contested. Cognitive environments are increasingly subject to manipulation. Political systems are fragmenting under pressure. Risk is no longer…
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