Global Business Outlook

Welcome to the Age of Upheaval

What are the top 10 Leadership Capabilities necessary to lead during this

time of global upheaval?

1. A High Degree of Technological Literacy

‘Every aspect of consumer’ lives is shifting to become digital’

2. Be prepared to rapidly experiment with new approaches that combine

diverse ideas

CEOs realise that success requires ceaseless innovation.

3. Greater capacity for quick decision making, with

complex and ambiguous information

Leading has stepped up another notch in its scale of complexity and

challenge

4. Smart and humble enough to learn from mistakes

Work is work and is not going to be fun all the time. The people who understand that and settle in for the long run will do well. Richard Young, NFL MD, China

5. Learn to operate effectively with much less control

The ability to think fluidly in response to the unprecedented complexity of today’s economy is crucial for CEOs themselves

6. Skilled communicators and motivators

Communication is key in getting the best out of your team

7: Adept at building high performing teams and eliciting

high performance through inspiration rather than issuing

orders

Motivate not dictate

8. A digitized approach will need to be applied to all strategy, planning and

execution‘There’s huge digital divide

opening up between those that adopt digitization and those that

are falling behind’

9. Be more creative than ever

The highest ranked of all strategic priorities in the CEO survey was the need for ‘speeding up

innovation’

10. Demonstrate extraordinary resilience

The capacity to cope with complexity and retain a sense of

calm confidence amid chaos

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