IMD-OWP22-PostEvent-Report-V11[8]

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KEYNOTE

“DON’TBEABOTTLENECK TOCHANGE; CEOS MUST TRUST THE NEXT GENERATION”

Business leaders must “accept the new reality”, Holcim CEO Jan Jenisch says, arguing that organizations have no choice but to embrace megatrends such as digitalization, diversity, and sustainability to earn their place in the future.

Keynote highlights

Faced with fast-moving megatrends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Jenisch said, CEOs have a responsibility to create the conditions for innovators and the next generation to transform industries – and then to get out of their way. “We need to transform to have our place in the world tomorrow. We need to make it happen and to make it happen very fast,” he told Orchestrating Winning Performance participants during his keynote address.

“As CEOs of the company, we have to accept the reality of these needed changes,” he said. “There are too many CEOs trying to be in the driver’s seat. My job is to understand the importance of this, to understand that I should not be the bottleneck, and to delegate this to the next generation.”

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