Leadership

WHAT'S NEXT?: Traditional slow, hierarchical leadership models are breaking down to be replaced by more agile systems of decision-making. Consequently, populist leaders are threatening to replace many career politicians while leaders in general are dealing with unprecedented, complex levels and speed of change requiring instant insights and decision-making. Many leaders (middle management) will be lost to automation in the coming years while Millennials will increasingly occupy leadership roles..

• The United States would be joining the One Trillion Trees Initiative, promising that Washington will continue to show strong leadership in restoring, growing, and better managing our trees and our forests.
• A leadership position would enable the UK to develop sought-after expertise in EV technology, manufacturing and charging infrastructure, with substantial potential export opportunities.
• By 2024, the leaders of 50% of Australian organisations will have mastered future of culture traits, such as empathy, empowerment, innovation, and customer data centricity as they seek digital leadership at scale.
• By 2024, leaders in 50% of G2000 organizations will have mastered future of culture traits such as empathy, empowerment, innovation, and customer and data centricity to achieve leadership at scale.
• The European Commission has promised regulation on facial recognition technology in 2020, which could mean Britain having to defer to European leadership on a significant technological challenge at the very moment it is untangling itself from the European Union.
• This year China will take its claims to institutional leadership global, seizing political space afforded by U.S. retrenchment under President Trump and more actively shaping global institutions to its interests.
• Industries of the future are major Administration research and Development priorities in 2021, such as artificial intelligence (AI) that has significant potential to contribute to U.S. scientific leadership and economic competitiveness in agriculture.
• And if Merkel's governing grand coalition is unable to weather the change in CDU leadership, forcing elections as early as next year, the Greens could well join with the CDU, SPD, or other liberal independent parties to enter a new coalition government.
• Accelerating America's Pledge is the first analysis to take the current momentum towards climate leadership among U.S. states, cities, and businesses, and project how far that leadership, without Washington, can take the U.S. by 2030.
• Thailand is facing an array of economic challenges that will take radical and strong leadership to even keep at bay in the next twenty years as the number of Thai people over 65 years of age expands to record levels with a diminishing workforce.
• As climate change increasingly threatens communities around the world, cities will continue to play a critical role in the fight against global climate catastrophe.
• Leadership might require companies to take positions and advocate for change on global inequality - including in-work poverty.
• Under French leadership the G7 group of the 7 largest advanced economies plus the European Union will focus in 2019 on fighting inequality, including poverty induced by climate change.
• Creating or expanding existing programs to support women who are pursuing a restart could be a differentiator within diversity program planning and lead to better leadership outcomes for women.
• Unless half of all available roles go to women this year, the FTSE 350 will not achieve the target for women in leadership positions by the end of 2020.
• Unless half of all available senior leader roles go to women this year, the FTSE 350 will not achieve the target of 33% women in leadership positions by the end of 2020.
• With uncertainties such as China's growing threats to the U.S. and global economies, ongoing labor shortage challenges, and the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, this year's agenda will turn a sharp focus to public policies that drive U.S. prosperity and global economic leadership.
• The U.S. energy storage market is likely to almost double by the end of 2019, presenting a major opportunity for CATL and potential partners to extend its current leadership in the rapidly growing ESS ecosystem across Asia and Europe.
• Increasing levels of R&D investment will create opportunities to build on aviation's track record of success in encouraging innovation, and the government is committed to using its full range of policy levers to support this.
• Solar advocates praised New York's state legislature's adoption of long anticipated legislation that will require at least 70 percent of electric generation come from renewable sources by 2030 and providing needed funding to low-income and environmental justice communities.
• While a number of countries are vying for 5G leadership, including the likes of China, the US and South Korea, Russia is likely to be a fast follower: 5G network launches are expected in Russia from around the end of 2020, with the total number of 5G connections set to reach 48 million by 2025.
• With new technologies expected to create 2.1 mn new jobs by 2020, African youth need relevant new skills including not only digital literacy but also creativity, critical thinking, flexibility and leadership.

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Last updated: 29 March 2020