SCENARIO
PLANNING
THE CLOUDY AND
CLOCKWORK FLAGS
CHANGING THE
GLOBAL GAME
To get ahead of your competitors, you need the bright eyes
of a fox to spot the flags changing the game around you –
and the agility of a fox to meet the challenges they pose.
IN THIS UPDATE ON THE GLOBAL FLAGS
I identified in 2015’s Flagwatching, you’ll see
that clockwork flags are those ticking away
with fairly precise consequences, whereas
cloudy flags can have a wide array of
possible outcomes.
The religious flag
The flag of major religious conflict,
which really only went up the flagpole
in this century after a thousand-year
hiatus, is affecting all sorts of games in
a significant way.
The first is the Middle East and North
Africa, parts of which are in a permanent
state of civil war as a result of this flag.
Thousands have died, millions have been
turned into refugees and major cities like
Aleppo have been destroyed.
The second is the toughening of