{"id":9860,"date":"2023-03-16T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2023-03-16T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:34:23","slug":"business-leaders-should-take-political-risks-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/tomorrow-choices\/business-leaders-should-take-political-risks-more-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Business leaders should take political risks more seriously&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Geopolitical instability and conflicts have become the greatest threat to global economic growth, yet when taking short-term decisions that are often vital for their organisations or that can have a significant human or financial impact, decision-makers find it difficult to anticipate political risks and sometimes even ignore them. In an increasingly uncertain international context, <mark>developing the ability and the mental habit of evaluating and responding to multiple (political) risks in a forward-looking approach circumventing cognitive biases is now essential for managers and the long-term profitability of their activities.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns cs-column h-my-40 h-my-0-sm is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/lorenzo-coronati-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Coronati\" class=\"wp-image-9904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/lorenzo-coronati-1.jpg 405w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/lorenzo-coronati-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/lorenzo-coronati-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/lorenzo-coronati-1-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center h-ml-20 h-ml-0-xs is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><span class=\"h-fs-18 h-fw-700 h-cl-blue\">Lorenzo Coronati<\/span><br>Attorney and Global Executive PhD candidate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/jallat_tc.jpg\" alt=\"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jallat\" class=\"wp-image-9866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/jallat_tc.jpg 392w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/jallat_tc-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/jallat_tc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/jallat_tc-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center h-ml-20 h-ml-0-xs is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><span class=\"h-fs-18 h-fw-700 h-cl-blue\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jallat<\/span><br>Professor of Marketing at ESCP Business School<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of their job, leaders in organisations (CEOs, policy-makers and more broadly anyone who oversees a process of social influence to maximize the efforts of other stakeholders for a given purpose) have to make important decisions, to anticipate opportunities offered by the business world on the one hand and the challenges on the other. <strong>Every decision they make in a turbulent or volatile environment such as the one we now live in, involves a degree of political risk-taking.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the importance of this phenomenon, leaders tend to ignore it <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/05\/managing-21st-century-political-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">until it leads to a crisis for their organisation<\/a>, and most do not incorporate meticulous political analyses in their risk management and international approaches. And yet, developing the ability to identify, assess and respond to risks is now an essential skill for managers and their organisations\u2019 adaptation and resilience in the face of uncertainty and crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the fact that both the Covid-19 pandemic and inflation remain major concerns among executives and political decision-makers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/strategy-and-corporate-finance\/our-insights\/economic-conditions-outlook-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the latest McKinsey Global Survey on economic conditions<\/a> <strong>geopolitical instability and\/or conflicts are now considered the greatest threat to global economic growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3-1024x552.jpg\" alt=\"McKinsey&amp;Company: Economic conditions outlook, March 22.\" style=\"border:1px solid\" class=\"wp-image-9888 h-p-10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3-1024x552.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3-1536x828.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3-150x81.jpg 150w, https:\/\/escp.eu\/thechoice\/wp-content\/uploads\/economic-conditions-outlook-march-2022-3.jpg 1769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: McKinsey&amp;Company: Economic conditions outlook, March 22.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, experts and leaders interviewed during the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/global-risks-report-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Economic Forum<\/a>&nbsp;in Davos, Switzerland, named geopolitical risks and global warming&#8217;s impact on the energy sector (up to 8.5 million jobs in the fossil and nuclear energy sectors will disappear by 2050) as two of the main drivers of global imbalance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This shows that <strong>understanding political risk is the key to any successful initiative.<\/strong> Still, corporations spend a lot more time and money managing financial and operational risks than dealing with the identification and assessment of political risks &#8211; including in unstable, corrupt and even criminogenic environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent events show that <strong>decision-makers tend to ignore political risk until it occurs in an acute and irreversible way<\/strong> (think of the way Renault or McDonald&#8217;s left Russia, for example). This systematic underestimation lies in the multifaceted and constantly evolving nature of political risk that challenges decision-making in today\u2019s complex environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Procrastination, denial and prejudice<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/academ.escpeurope.eu\/pub\/IP%20N%C2%B02022-09-EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the impact paper<\/a> we wrote as part of ESCP Business School\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/escp.eu\/news\/escp-launches-third-edition-impact-papers-addressing-current-geopolitical-emergency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cGeopolitics and Global Business Impact\u201d series<\/a>, we identified <strong>two main reasons for leaders\u2019 lack of political (geo)foresight:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li><strong><em>One is more emotional and irrational<\/em><\/strong>, where systematic deviations from cognitive rationality in people\u2019s judgment and decision-making \u2013 designated by psychologists and academics as \u2018heuristics and biases\u2019 \u2013 play crucial roles in risk recognition while approaching international business.<br><br>Procrastination, denial, (cognitive) laziness and prejudice are often more important than rational, well-founded, evidence-based judgement in recognising and managing geopolitical risks.<br><br>Made up of preconceived ideas, these <strong>mental constraints make it difficult for managers to objectively anticipate or recognise future damage<\/strong> (even when it is already happening), not allowing them to prevent and mitigate the disastrous consequences of international crises for their company. Our actions are less designed by the quality of our analysis than by simple inner factors such as perspectives, experiences and often, self-interest.<br><br>Heuristics and biases are an architecture of assumptions that can help our mental discomfort maintain a balance in our behaviours and prevent the psychological difficulty of cognitive dissonance, i.e., a feeling of cognitive pain that occurs when there are conflicting thoughts, beliefs, or behaviours. Both support and give balance to our ideas and decisions, even when there is a mental conflict in us during the elaboration of a decision-making process founded on destructive beliefs or truths. <strong>It is the triumph of ideology over data and expertise, or hasty actions over analytic reflection.&nbsp;<\/strong><br><br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><em>The other is elusive and intangible<\/em><\/strong>, since it is built by the political risk ambiguity as an exogenous and extraneous element in a company\u2019s life. It is expressed in the difficulty of understanding the peril of an emerging risk due to its unpredictable appearance in a globalised world. Occurrences with a local distribution are unknown and unimaginable because the trigger might be unleashed in another part of the world.<br><br><strong>This information asymmetry creates a vulnerability in the leader\u2019s threat identification process.<\/strong> Decision-makers find it difficult to identify something random, both temporally and logistically distant, and not programmable by pre-existing evidence, having an elusive form and an imponderable timing frequency.<br><br><strong>These features make it hard for leaders to process decisions with events that happen infrequently and without familiar signals<\/strong>. There is a fallacy in the tendency to handle political risk as a typical event with associated costs because it is not always straightforward, rational, or predictable.<br><br><strong>Managing these events requires greater anticipation and systematic, programmed monitoring<\/strong>, following the example of <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/1985\/09\/scenarios-uncharted-waters-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pierre Wack<\/a> who, using scenario analysis, was the first to develop a systematic planning and forecasting methodology at Royal Dutch Shell&#8217;s headquarters in London. Thanks to his analyses, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was able to anticipate two major oil shocks in less than a decade.<br><br>The problem is that such a process is liable to be isolated in minds. This approach harms organisations. <strong>Spotting risks needs to be a gradual and collective mental process. <\/strong>It is essential to lead and orchestrate the interactions of the elements informing the process, developing a synergy between risk perception and detection.<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Leaders should learn to explore more hypotheses, use forward-looking methodologies more systematically and train themselves to improve their personal awareness of possible disturbances or problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We mean neither to outline ways of eliminating cognitive biases, unfounded heuristics or prejudices, nor to formulate a uniform political risk construct. It is simply impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, leaders should learn to explore more hypotheses, use forward-looking methodologies (game theory, systemic approaches, analysis of weak signals, etc.) more systematically and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/risk-and-resilience\/our-insights\/when-nothing-is-normal-managing-in-extreme-uncertainty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">train themselves to improve their personal awareness<\/a> of possible disturbances or problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark>Developing this skill in a more assertive way would make it possible to mitigate a number of unforeseen, deleterious, costly consequences, potentially prohibitive for the future of companies\u2019 international development.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This article was originally published in French <a 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