CCL White Paper: A Study of Senior Executives’ Views on the Future

Talent, innovation, collaboration, and globalization dominate the minds of today’s senior-level executives—from Nairobi to Nevada, Malaysia to Minnesota. When researchers at the nation’s leading executive development institute, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), surveyed nearly 250 global leaders and asked them to forecast the 10 most important leadership trends in business, they zeroed in on several critical themes:

• Talent Creation and Development: organizations must create pools of candidates with high leadership potential and give them the space to reach their personal goals
• Competitive dominance and organizational success: flexibility in recruiting, developing, and retaining talent is the key
• Authenticity in leadership: a critical skill needed to build camaraderie and foster a collaborative workplace
• Internal organizational changes, market dynamics, a shortage of talent, and globalization: key drivers of the increasing complexity of business challenges
• Nearly 92 percent of the executive surveyed believe the challenges their organizations face are more complex than they were just five years ago

To explore in more detail the 10 key leadership trends in business identified by CCL’s groundbreaking research report, read the Research White Paper (PDF).