Decision Fatigue: the mental exhaustion and decline in decision-making quality that occurs after a long, continuous series of choices, often leading to impulsive, irrational, or avoidant behavior.

Sound familiar?

In a polycrisis era we’ve adapted to “ambient stress”. But, as a business owner, or anyone in a position of leadership will know, this ambient stress is amplified when you have the additional responsibility of steering a company or division through ever turbulent and uncharted waters. This year alone, the undercurrents have become more challenging: from AI implementation, to supply chains disrupted by geopolitics, to the unpredictable impact of extreme weather.

In our C-suite trend briefings we always ask, ”Who looks after the leaders in your organisation?”  This question is always met with stunned silence. 

There is rarely a mechanism or organisational safety net. 

For the past two years, Flux has quietly hosted executive lunches to address this.

These intimate lunches – with a menu by chef Luke Dale-Roberts at The Peech Hotel – are designed as a rare opportunity for business leaders to step off the treadmill, take stock of a fast changing world and be introduced to new ideas. 

Part of this “decompression process” is an opportunity to pick the brain of South Africa’s most respected trend analyst and ask whatever questions you have about your business, your sector and the trajectory of change of the world.

Flux Trends is known and trusted for guiding companies through “the death of old ideas, and the birth of the new”. As a certified death doula and transition guide, Dion now adds a unique perspective to business disruption, reframing organisational change as an inevitable lifecycle. Every business eventually faces a series of “deaths” – of outdated technologies, operating systems, processes, and now with AI, jobs and functions. 

“Rewirement” is now a necessity: not only for business leaders, but the rewirement of a workforce as new technologies reshape operating systems and roles & responsibilities.

To meet the velocity of change, business leaders are quick to implement the new, forgetting to mark or acknowledge what’s ending. For staff this creates stumbling blocks for stepping into what comes next. It is the unintended consequence of embracing the new, and a disconnect we are going to see more of.

These lunches are structured around The Art of Rewirement trend briefing  and are designed for leadership teams faced with implementing change, departments within a company that need to recalibrate or even for companies to host their clients to help convey a new trajectory.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”  –  Albert Einstein –

For more information drop Bethea an email on: connected@fluxtrends.co.za