Speed was worshipped. Efficiency was gospel. But when the pressure came, it wasn’t the fastest systems that survived—it was the most prepared. The ones with backups. With options. With leaders who planned for pain, not just performance.
The supply chain didn’t just break. It revealed everything modern business had deprioritized: domestic production, workforce depth, logistical redundancy, even basic patience. Fragility wasn’t a surprise. It was engineered. Now comes the course correction.
Resilience isn’t a trend—it’s the new baseline. That means redundancy in systems. Sovereignty in strategy. Control in operations. Not just in factories, but in leadership benches, hiring pipelines, and operational philosophy. The builders who embrace that now won’t just survive the next storm—they’ll own the road when it clears.