This document discusses the challenges facing modern businesses from an increasingly chaotic world due to factors like globalization, rapid technology changes, and disruptive media. It argues that businesses need to adopt accelerated strategic management to keep pace, which requires being quicker to respond, more flexible, transparent, and not afraid to fail. Specifically, businesses need to plan in advance, proactively respond to events, have cohesive and data-driven organizations, and focus on the right metrics to outperform competitors in this chaotic environment.