Kuala Lampur, Feb. 4 -- For a long time, many organisations operated on the assumption that stability would eventually return.

That with the right strategy, careful execution, and enough patience, the turbulence of recent years would subside and familiar patterns of work would re-establish themselves. That assumption is becoming increasingly difficult to defend.

Recent discussions in Forbes ("Why Change Leadership No Longer Works The Way It Used To") point to a reality that many leaders already sense but hesitate to articulate openly: the problem today is not a temporary disruption, but a structural shift.

Markets move faster, technology evolves unevenly, and external shocks arrive with little warning.

In such an environment, long-ter...