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Jan 22, 2025 | 
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This article is part of: World Economic Forum Annual MeetingFundamental shifts in the global economy and how companiescreate value are reaching critical inflection points. This year's Disruption Index identifies a number of keyconcerns including cybersecurity, supply chains andgeopolitics. At the same time, CEOs are more confident in theircompanies' ability to navigate this disrupted environment. Uncertainty and volatility are rising, increasing strains onbusiness leaders and operating models.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
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Top-performing CEOs are identifying, embracing andmaximizing the opportunities disruption affords and driving valuein return, according to the AlixPartners 2025 DisruptionIndex.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
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2024 was quite the year. In almost every democratic election around the world, votersdemanded change. On the campaign trail, President Trump survivedtwo assassination attempts before winning a decisive reelectionvictory—a comeback unprecedented in American history. TheFrench and German governments both fell in the face of votes ofno-confidence, and the Labour Party won in the UK general election,ending 14 years of Conservative rule.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
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Exceptional leadership is more than strategy. It is standing up
for people and principles, especially when it is not easy.
For most CEOs, doing so is largely a matter of saying the right
things, and the risks are relatively small. But in a world of
rising armed conflict and threats to political freedom, news
organizations are called upon to do more.
Journalists around the world put their lives and liberties on
the line every day.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
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Part six of my Leadership on a tightrope (continued)
series.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced a bold and
ambitious goal: to land a man on the moon and return him safely to
Earth before the end of the decade. This goal was incredibly
audacious given the technological limitations at the time and the
fact that the U.S. had only recently sent its first astronaut into
space.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
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Part four of my Leadership on a tightrope (continued)
series.
The U.S. elections this week have clearly shown just how fast
the world is moving. Uncertainty and volatility are our new normal. Speed to results is imperative.
But speeding to where? What's the destination? Overcomplicating the answers to these questions in today's
disrupted world is a mistake. Strategic planning, and its
associated processes, can become a crutch of their own—an
excuse for inaction.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
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Part three of my Leadership on a tightrope (continued)
series.
Putting the right people in the right seats and empowering them
has never been more important.
This has always been a core job of the CEO, but the world keeps
getting more complex. Technology is changing too fast. The CEO
cannot be everywhere and know everything.
Warren Buffett, to whom the title quote for this article is
attributed, is known for empowering the executives at his portfolio
companies with both resources and authority.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
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Part two of my Leadership on a tightrope
(continued)series.
The death of the celebrity CEO has been much heralded, but
evidence would suggest that our appetite for hard-charging,
charismatic leaders who dominate the headlines has not waned.
Over the course of my career, I have seen many executives built
up by the press and investors, only to be later torn down. Some of
them engaged in outright fraud—think Bernie Madoff or Sam
Bankman-Fried.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
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I was pleased to join Lindiwe Mazibuko, Founder and CEO of
Futurelect; Miroslav Lajčák, Special
Representative of the European Union; Anwar Gargash, Diplomatic
Adviser to the President, United Arab Emirates Government; Geir
Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations; and moderator Mirek Duaek, Managing
Director, World Economic Forum, for a panel discussion at the World
Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Meetings in New York
last week week.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
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AlixPartners CEO Simon Freakley appeared on Bloomberg
Television's "The Close" to discuss how top quartile
performers are aligning digital strategy and use cases for AI to
drive revenue growth and improved operational performance. Watch
the full interview below and learn more insights from the
soon-to-launch AlixPartners' Digital Disruption Survey.
Watch the full clip here
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