Making a successful transition to the C-suite is a challenge for any executive. A recent McKinsey Global Survey on executive transitions, asked C-level respondents how they managed the business, culture, team, and self-management aspects of their new jobs.
Leaders in the digital age are different from leaders in the past. They prototype an agile strategy and learn from their experiences. They attack their own businesses before disrupters do. At the same time, they digitise their core business and get the most value from both their existing and external data, all the while mastering the digital ecosystems they operate in.
Martha Lane Fox has created a petition at change.org urging the government to set up DOT EVERYONE - a new institution tasked with making Britain the most digital nation on the planet.
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Globalization, flex hours and the work-at-home smartphone ever aglow are robbing many workers of sleep, and the consequences go beyond coming into the office with dark circles under the eyes. Several recent studies find that productivity, creativity and workplace morale are all taking a hit as a quickening capitalist society and the human need for getting to REM jostle for attention.
Barclays’ Fast Growth Tech survey, which questioned owners and CEOs of UK tech firms, has revealed that many of the industry’s bright lights are feeling confident about delivering a stellar year of growth with the UK’s tech businesses set to grow four times faster than GDP in 2015. Four fifths (79%) of all the firms surveyed asserted that strong leadership was at the heart of their growth in 2014.