The event, the forum's 33rd annual summit, has been themed 'Building Trust' to reflect that the WEF termed "an extraordinary climate of global uncertainty and complexity".

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In today's climate of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (the "VUCA world" that the futurist Bob Johansen explores in Leaders Make the Future), they matter even more.

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There he had been schooled in the concept of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

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The new rules allow an escape from all this complexity and uncertainty.

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This increases the level of complexity, uncertainty and risk.

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Slow down now and you will move faster, further and with greater purpose later--even when, or especially when, you are staring down the triple threat of complexity, speed and uncertainty.

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Complexity is in cahoots with speed and uncertainty.

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