Decisions by governments, businesses and institutions are increasingly made too late. Or they miss the mark altogether. Here we explain the mindset shift needed super urgently because of what Thinking the Unthinkable calls the Pinball Crisis. 

This is a new world shaped by the intensity of unpredictable, unthinkable, overlapping shocks rather than isolated events.  

It is like the random ball hurtling back and forth ever more rapidly on a fairground pinball machine. 

Geopolitical conflict, energy prices, inflation, political instability, market volatility, rapid technological change and the climate crisis are no longer unfolding separately. They interact, amplify each other and move faster than traditional decision-making assumptions can absorb. 

Much leadership thinking is still organised around the idea of disruption as something temporary. The evidence points to a very different operating environment. It is where shocks collide, and where the gap between reality and decision-making continues to widen. 

This video explores that gap, why it matters, and why it is now being felt most sharply across politics, markets and institutions. They are all struggling,