OWP 2022: Leading For the Future

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CLOSING THE KNOWING-DOING GAP: HOW FUTURE READY ORGANIZATIONS TURN KNOWLEDGE INTO ACTION

Future readiness is a concept that is easier to formulate in theory than to put into practice.

Cycles of predictability and inevitability are short lived; change is a constant. A company that can hold its course, deal with curve balls, and still advance on its aspirations is a future-ready one. Hardly surprising, then, that to concurrently rejuvenate and reinvent its core business while also developing new growth platforms is at the very heart of good leadership.

leaders know how to scrutinize that climate, determine when to balance blue-sky thinking and pragmatism, and, at the same time, work to build a future-ready organization. The work starts with an executive team, and, at its center, its business leader. When you have the vision, you can be the architect to make it happen.

THE READINESS IS ALL On the journey to future readiness, many businesses are caught short and simply fail to implement the experience and insight they’ve worked so hard to acquire. Why? It’s not lack of will, but often the organizational climate that bars executives from doing the right thing, even when it’s obvious. Forward-thinking

HOWARD YU LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD

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