IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD ANNUAL REPORT 2019

FLEX OR FAIL Arturo Bris,Tony Felton, Robby Mol

The economic and social consequences raised in Flex or Fail go beyond the disruption in business models that the gig economy is causing. A flexible job is potentially beneficial to those in the workforce and society but not everyone will be up to the task to self-organize. But we are cautiously optimistic because individuals taking control of work and pay is something the world has done before. Organizations as we know them today have only been around for the last 100 years. In earlier times most people were self-employed and managed their personal brand.”

Bris, Felton and Mol

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE Susan Goldsworthy, Sydney Goldsworthy

In today’s world, you can no longer just focus on being a leader for yourself, or your team, or your organization - you’ve also got to be a leader at societal level. In talking with executives about what influenced them, what came out was their children and grandchildren. In that moment I thought, if their children and grandchildren influence them, let’s write something that they could read to their children and grandchildren that could influence them as well. Leaders have enormous power and enormous privilege, and with that comes a responsibility. If we can tap into that power, privilege and responsibility, we can achieve so much more than we are aware of, and we can have a far greater impact on what is happening globally than we probably realize.”

Susan Goldsworthy IMD Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change