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New Leadership Imperatives (Inspiring the Next Game)

Martin Reeves and François Candelon

De Gruyter, 2022

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Leading an organization has never been easy, but it’s more challenging today due to serious and fairly recent problems. While advanced technology offers numerous benefits, figuring it out and implementing its best uses remain problematic. Today’s complex world also requires new, creative approaches to management and leadership. To that end, Boston Consulting Group editors Martin Reeves and François Candelon curated this collection of enlightened perspectives from thoughtful leadership experts discussing the issues confronting leaders and explaining what they need to know.

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Leaders must overcome their organizations’ challenges.

Leaders must confront and overcome the challenges facing their companies. They must set and meet goals, engage with customers and stakeholders, and stay accountable for their company’s performance.

Leaders must map out and navigate strategic routes for their organizations amid unsettling crises. And, they must present a compelling public stance – particularly when serving as their company’s spokesperson – in the face of high-profile political, social, environmental, and commercial pressures.

Leadership today is more complex than ever.

Leaders have always expected to deal with weighty responsibilities, but their challenges are multiplying. In the coming years, the increasing complexities of modern business will sweep leaders aside – unless they can stave off burnout, avoid becoming overburdened, and manage to stay standing and keep leading.

Traditional management practices aren’t the answer. Leaders must look to other fields for the tools they need to avoid such dangers as geopolitical instability, social polarization, overcommitment, and exhaustion. Unfortunately...

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Martin Reeves is chairman of the Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute; François Candelon is its former global director. They both contributed chapters and edited this compilation. Other contributors include Michelle Akers, Allison Bailey, Elena Barybkina, Vikram Bhalla, Stephen Bungay, Andrew Cainey, Tom Deegan, Anson Dorrance, Diana Dosik, Andrew Dyer, C. Patrick Erker, Gerry Hansell, Johann D. Harnoss, Fabien Hassan, Georg Kell, Mathieu Lefèvre, Sandy Moose, Joshua Serlin, Jeff Sullivan, Peter Tollman, Roselinde Torres, Christian Veithm, and Kevin Whitaker.

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Leaders must overcome their organizations’ challenges.

Leadership today is more complex than ever.

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