{
  "id": 14694688,
  "title": "ConnectOne Bank CEO: what Kevin Warsh’s ‘quieter Fed’ can teach CEOs about communicating uncertainty",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/connectone-bank-ceo-what-kevin-warshs-quieter-fed-can-teach-ceos",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-15T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fortune",
    "slug": "fortune",
    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/15/connectone-bank-ceo-what-kevin-warshs-quieter-fed-can-teach-ceos-about-communicating-uncertainty/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Economic uncertainty pressures leaders to provide answers before they have them, as employees, clients, and investors want to know the company's future. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is grappling with this distinction, moving away from the Fed's previous forward guidance and adopting a more guarded approach to predictions. This change in communication style highlights the importance of clarity over certainty in leadership.\n\nWarsh's strategy of laying out the Fed's framework, facts, and underlying economy strength allows markets to determine their own path. This approach can also be applied to business leadership, as CEOs should communicate frameworks to their employees, clients, and shareholders rather than trying to forecast the future. Business owners must make decisions with incomplete information, and providing clarity on their business today, cash flow, market, and risk enables them to make informed decisions.\n\nLeadership in uncertain times requires creating enough clarity so that people feel comfortable moving forward, even when all answers are not available. This principle has been crucial for ConnectOne Bank throughout various challenges, including the financial crisis, pandemic, and volatile interest rate swings. Warsh's leadership at the Fed aims to reshape communications by emphasizing clarity over certainty, providing guidance on how to navigate uncertainty while maintaining a forward-looking approach.",
  "summary": "There is an important difference between giving people certainty and giving them clarity, and Kevin Warsh is wrestling with that distinction in real time.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}