OWP 2022: Leading For the Future

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WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER Future readiness is the ability to concurrently keep rejuvenating and reinventing your core business, while also developing new growth platforms. LEADING FROM THE FRONT This is what leadership is all about: leaders are paid not to preside over the inevitable, they are paid to make happen what would otherwise not happen.

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leading companies across industries. We got to grips with the choices they make, the way in which they work, and the decisions that their exceptional leaders calculate. In all cases, the conclusion was clear: being future-ready means always moving or risk back-sliding.

sometimes company-specific approaches. It requires real investment and hard work across a range of areas, fueled by a shared, genuine purpose within an organization. A multi-year research project at IMD’s Center for Future Readiness has provided revealing insights. Our findings have been widely reported on the BBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and others. Out of our data, we have highlighted the successes of

IS YOUR COMPANY DYNAMIC? ORWOULD IT PANIC? Becoming future-ready is not a destination. There is no overnight revolution or one-size-fits-all magic wand: it’s a continuous, sometimes painful, journey of evolution that requires different and

RECOMMENDED READING

THE FUTURE READINESS INDICATOR

The Future Readiness Indicator is designed to measure a company’s readiness for deep, long-term, secular trends.

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