ZAWYA-PRESSR: Business leaders examine how power, judgment and investment decisions are being reshaped

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First published: 18-Dec-2025 15:32:39Speakers highlighted the GCC’s resilience and reforms as key factors in maintaining an advantage amid uneven global growthLeaders agreed that while technology is advancing rapidly, judgment, capital allocation and governance are increasingly determining who pulls ahead and who falls behind in a K-shaped global economy.Discussions explored how compressed decision cycles are reshaping organisations and investment models, with direct implications for talent pipelines, junior roles and the future structure of work.Family offices emerged as a focal point, as intergenerational transitions drive a shift from wealth preservation toward private assets, direct ownership and venture building.Abu Dhabi, UAE: With strong financial conditions and reform momentum underpinning growth across the Gulf, leaders are increasingly focused on how power, judgment and capital should be deployed for long-term advantage. These themes anchored discussions at the INSEAD Global Business Leaders Conference Week 2025, held at the business school’s Middle East Campus in Abu Dhabi, where executives, investors and policymakers gathered to assess AI’s real impact on the global economy.Across a week of keynotes, panels and venture showcases at INSEAD’s Middle East Campus, conversations moved beyond technological capability to focus on consequence: who gains advantage, how capital is allocated, and what leadership judgment means in an environment where decision cycles are compressing and outcomes are becoming more uneven.Kristin Skogen Lund, Chair of INSEAD’s Board of Directors, set the tone early in the week, urging leaders to constructively engage with technological change rather than resist it. “From a leadership perspective, you have to embrace it, see it as an opportunity, understand your current position and explore how to pivot into creating new possibilities.”Discussions on leadership and organisational strategy highlighted a shared view that while advanced technologies are now embedded across industries, sustainable advantage continues to rest on capabilities machines cannot replace, including values, creativity and accountability. Several speakers noted that as these tools scale unevenly, gaps are widening between organisations that integrate judgment and capital discipline effectively and those that do not, reinforcing a K-shaped pattern of outc...

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