It’s been a year since PwC launched The New Equation, our formula for delivering real-life outcomes that create value for our clients and the world. …

With their new book “Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022), my PwC colleagues Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani are providing much needed advice to leaders from across industries and regions. — The need for companies to transform has never been greater. 21st century technology is changing every aspect of how people work. Its ubiquity makes the scale of the disruption comparable to what our ancestors went through during the agricultural and the industrial revolutions. …

At the heart of PwC’s The New Equation strategy is the phrase “building trust + delivering sustained outcomes”. At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that the phrase contains two key elements, but in fact there are three: trust; sustained outcomes; and a plus sign linking them both…

We are at a unique moment in history. Factors such as technological disruption, climate change, fractured geopolitics and the continued effects of COVID-19 are creating fundamental shifts in society, and changing the game for businesses, governments and individuals. It’s at this moment — and because of this moment — that…

PwC just announced a new strategy, The New Equation. At the heart of the strategy is a simple idea: that our societies and our clients need trust and sustained outcomes in combination with one another more than they ever have. …

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! (Macbeth: IV.i 10–11; 18–19; 44–47) As a child I loved Macbeth. It was…

ADAPT is even more relevant in the COVID-19 world In 2017 our team identified a set of urgent challenges the world was confronting and captured our findings in the framework called ADAPT (Asymmetry, Disruption, Age, Polarization, and Trust). …

As some of you know we have been working on the gritty issues the world is dealing with for the last year or so. And, you have patiently read some of the associated material. We have just published the article which I believe best captures the core ideas and sense of urgency we feel about the topic. It is the piece of work I am most proud of writing in years. I hope you find it provokes ideas for you like working on it has for me.