Signals and Shifts
Signals & Shifts is Synaptic Thinking’s ongoing series of short, insight-driven briefs. Each piece takes a disruption — a trade war, a climate shock, a geopolitical realignment, or a technological breakthrough — and runs it through a synaptic lens, connecting signals across silos. These are not forecasts. They are foresight triggers — signals of where systems may shift, and the questions leaders should be asking now.
Why Boards Are Losing Optionality
How today’s geopolitical crisis quietly compress board decision space.
Cocoa as Nestlé’s Governance Test Case
What one ingredient reveals about governing in the polycrisis era.