Here’s how you, as a leader, can help make your company future-
ready:
- Be decisive and unsentimental about your corporate
portfolio. Too often, leaders keep businesses for historical or
sentimental reasons. To build a successful future, your focus
can’t be on the past. - Be experimental and ambitious, pushing for
breakthrough innovation, rethinking global supply chains,
improving sustainability, and integrating technology. AI and
other advancements must be central, but it’s the mindset
here that matters—expansive thinking and a readiness for
change. - Be prudent with capital and liquidity requirements.
Evaluate your company’s funding needs and run risk models
continuously. Ensure there’s a financial cushion for any
bumps in the road so you can shape—rather than be a victim
of—future events. - Be patient as you build teams and manage talent. Your top
priority is recruiting, developing, and retaining strong
people. Every business is a people’s business, so the quality
of your team is the difference between top performance and
mediocrity. - Be persistent, ready to take on the obstacles to come. It’s
the only way you can achieve any of the four points above.
Hans-Paul Bürkner
Managing Director & Global Chair Emeritus
Boston Consulting Group
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