We live in a hyperconnected and interdependent global society, it’s always important to bridge the global leadership gap and how to shape the new breed of world class leaders.
The global working environment is diverse, dynamic, energetic, and innovative; it is a strategic imperative for today’s business leaders and professionals to broaden the view of global society, keep learning agile, and become more fluent in understanding the global context of problem-solving.
It’s imperative to shape global mindset, interdisciplinary knowledge, professional expertise, cultural cognizance to bridge differences: The world-class board leaders are open minded to embrace different perspectives, demonstrate cultural empathy, refine global leadership qualities such as tolerance of ambiguity, learning agility, across-boundary communication, and mastery of handling complexity. The global board directors involve a personal intention to focus on being global, harness trustful professional relationships in a dynamic global working environment for leading global changes promptly.
Gain various perspectives on core values of humanity: Global world becomes over-complex, the boundary of knowledge domains is blurred, cross-disciplinary knowledge is powerful to solve many of today’s over-complex and interdependent problems. Corporate board directors as global problem solvers can see the world with fresh eyes, open minds, identify common global issues that need to be handled with interrelationship intricacy, understand and act on critical business issues with global impact. They can create thresholds of possibilities that can result and expand into innovative thinking, to set the right priority, and solve problems that really matter cohesively.
Today and beyond, BoDs need to be global citizens with the ability to balance resources, risks, and consequences: The new breed of global citizens today are information savvy, have a diversity of thoughts, characters, cognitive differences, skills, styles, etc, to create a holistic view. It implies that corporate boards of the future will need to work much more closely and collaboratively, to focus on the most important things, and benefit from a structured approach to keep creative energy flow, balance resources, risks, and consequences to make collective progress. Anyone who is selected to sit on a global corporate board should be fully qualified in varying leadership arenas such as strategy development, risk & crisis management, information & technology, global empathy, or experiences, etc, to improve global leadership maturity.
We live in a hyperconnected and interdependent global society, it’s always important to bridge the global leadership gap and how to shape the new breed of world class leaders. Organizational leaders such as board directors need to realign their purpose, talent with the role they play to make an influence, orchestrate and harmonize a global society smoothly.
