Future of Leadership
This year we set out to explore leadership challenges for top executives in Denmark. The future of leadership report contributes with perspectives on established leadership disciplins, and explores how leaders are affected by demand for digitalization and increased sustainability awareness.
EVerything else is changing - leadership too!
The average tenure of corporations is getting shorter and shorter over the decades. For S&P 500 corporations, the average tenure of 24 years in 2016 will shrink to 12 years by 2027. The main indicators are the introduction and growth of disruptive start-ups. Why are these numbers relevant? Because it takes a new form of leadership to embrace the challenges and go through the necessary transformation.
This year, Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK) in Silicon Valley sets out to explore leadership challenges for top leaders in Denmark. Our initial hypothesis was that drivers such as digitalization, globalization, automation, ESGs, and SDGs need more attention in the boardroom and on the executive level. To test this, ICDK summoned top executives and directors to raise the questions for the future of leadership.
The Future of Leadership report contributes with perspectives on established leadership disciplins, and explores how leaders are affected by demands for digitalization and increased sustainability awareness.
Click through the the cases under each topic below.
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Future of leadership Digitalization
Future of LeadershipIt is hardly a surprise that digitalization plays an important role when looking into leadership challenges. Leaders can ask themselves how it affects both their business model and their organization.
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future of leadership Leadership
Future of LeadershipTraditional leadership disciplines are affected by emerging technologies and new demands for sustainability. There are significant differences in governance practices between the U.S. and Europe, however, perspectives collected in the U.S. are relevant to shed light on future practices.08.01.2020Read more -
Future of leadership Sustainability
Future of LeadershipQuestions about sustainability are relevant to a very broad range of business subjects reaching from the existential question about a company’s purpose to specific accounting of CO2 emissions.08.01.2020Read more
