The 2020s have already seen extraordinary change – and the upheaval is still in process. A pandemic paralyzed the globe. Supply chains buckled. Inflation exploded. Russia invaded Ukraine. Altogether we’re dealing with a combination of cross-cutting macroeconomic and geopolitical forces the effects of which will not be readily mitigated – hope as much as many investors might. “It’s not going back to an old normal,” observes Dee Smith, the founder and CEO of Strategic Insight Group. As he sees it, COVID-19 accelerated the ending of the globalization era and the beginning of a period marked by multipolarity. Dee joins Jacob Shapiro, the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments, to talk about how the world is turning as we enter 2023 and what it will take to survive and thrive. Those with “an open mind, a willingness to turn on a dime, a psychological orientation towards agility” will prosper, according to Dee, “and the people who are disturbed by change are going to have a harder time.” Recorded on November 16, 2022.