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Countering VUCA C-Suite in G-Suits, please! FOR2022 IN HINDSIGHT

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TCS Octara.com revisits the 1 st Pakistan Future of Retail Business Summit 2022 (FOR2022) that covered Shopping, Payments, e-Commerce and Last-Mile Delivery. By Adil Ahmad It’s been five months since the 1 st Pakistan Future of Retail Business Summit 2022 (FOR2022), a glorious conclave of grassroots operators that constitute the nuts and bolts of the national economy, keeping it oiled and greased and functioning as the barometer of society’s health.   Anti-gravity suit warnings However, in the past five months, from purring like a well fed cat recovering from COVID, the political economy suddenly tanked and went into a nose dive. The anti-gravity suit warnings had been up for a while with lean and agile touted, and rightly so, as the panacea for the pull of earth's gravity that makes people suffer from air sickness, decompression sickness, trapped gas, and spatial disorientation, all of which take a toll on the human body and the body politics.   On the 8 th of Mar