Kienbaum Consultants International Introduces its 2016 updated study about the Executive Leadership Competency Models of the future

Next Generations CEOs Foreseeing what leaders will look like in the next decades

and the Leadership skills required at the top

“New Leadership” profiles are and will increasingly be dictated by the Digital surge

(This study is based on face-to-face conversations with more than a hundred business leaders in France and Europe)

Macro level evolutions at stake

The growing use of technology, the economics impacts of automation and the evolution of the societal model

Companies are getting bigger and above all, flatter

25 years from now, some 30% of the world's 2,500 top global CEOs will be women (around 5% today)

CEOs’ selection, turnover, and succession issues: an increasing impact on the enterprise

100 billion dollars: estimation of the economic cost for the world’ largest companies of appointing the wrong CEO through forced turnovers.

Over 80% of the companies are planning their CEO’s succession and it is increasing.

40% of all forced turnovers have taken place within the lowest-performing companies.

The companies still need to enhance forward-looking and creative CEO specifications, with a big picture and global understanding.

1/3 by 2040

A dynamic complexity

Success trends

A new generation & economy

A clear catching-up and a start to a natural rebalancing of the particularly biased and unfair situation, based on the recent trends in female education, appointments and social norm evolution.

But this prediction can also be related to the requirement of a new style of leadership to guide corporations in times of perpetual changes: more empathetic, open and collaborative with a high level of emotional intelligence.

In an increasingly digital-first world, business organizations are becoming more and more flat and horizontal structures with fluid exchanges and the emergence of a liquid workforce. This liquid workforce will build companies’ tomorrow competitive advantage.

In 2015, millennials became the largest share of the workforce. By 2025, that number will be 76% globally.

Worker redistribution with automation taking over more routine, manual and repetitive tasks: around 45% activities/jobs concerned today. 43% of the US workforce is expected to be freelance by 2020.

* Figures on that page are from Strategy& study: CEOs, Governance, and Success

Complexity is the new normal

When uncertainty becomes an opportunity

The 17th century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal’s wager can he be used as

an elegant reference to formulate a pragmatic argument:

To build the most durable and outstanding competitive advantages.

Set up a clear strategic course and accept to regularly change the way to get there. Build a tactical agility to test and change as often as required and as quickly as possible.

Rely on a well-defined vision and shared values and communicate consistently and intensively without altering it to stimulate confidence and faith to take advantage of every opportunity.

Nearly half of the CEOs feel that they aren’t prepared to handle the ever-rising complexity.

The level of complexity is expected to continue to grow in the next decades.

Coping with change is not enough

Business leaders must interact and step up as part of society as a whole. Leaders are no longer appointed and need to be elected, trusted, connected to the people. The foreseeing changes are more than just business fluctuations. It is a inclusive process reunifying and shaking up business and social pillars.

A VUCA world

Necessity to effectively capitalize on complexity and invest on it

To engage in a social, business, politic and technology integration

And accept unbalance

Enhance breakthrough thinking and develop an

experimentation culture at all levels of the organization.

Fight the natural impulse to wait for simplicity and take

calculated risk.

The rational choice is to believe in God The rational choice is to embrace ambiguity and

act despite uncertainty: invest in the future so you don’t miss it

Volatile & Versatile

An environment with more risk, different and faster cycles

Complex & Open

Not only global but multimodal, deeper, wider and fluid

The wise thing to do is to live your life as if God does exist because such a life has everything to gain and nothing to lose. If we live as though God exists, and He does indeed exist, we have gained heaven. If He doesn’t exist, we have lost nothing. If, on the other hand, we live as though God does not exist and He really does exist, we have gained hell and punishment and have lost heaven and bliss.

Uncertain & Unusual

Getting harder and harder to predict long term trends and even immediate behaviors

Ambiguous

Not an evolution or a transformation anymore but a revolution engaging all parts of interconnected societies

From the mid-sixties to now

The Top Manager

Large and management savvy C-suite advisors Career manager profiles Pragmatic and deal maker Stronger cultural role

1st half of the 20th Century

The Indisputable Sovereign Imperial entrepreneurs Industry builders Reduced C-suite and executive team

In the next decades The Authentic &

Simplifier Visionary

1/3 of the CEO’s will be women Increased mastering of technology Less barriers to entry new markets for small players Continuous learning and more focus leaders Less autocratic and more collaborative management environment IT and technology integrated in everything Better informed and data-supported decisions War for resources Age of transparency

Today The Agile Leader

Flattening of the hierarchy Great variety of experience The world is becoming more unpredictable Global war for talent Necessity to build durable and strong corporate

cultures

Move towards a service-based economy

Beginning of globalization

Global recession

Emergence of developed countries

Environmental risks

Executive Leadership evolution: past and upcoming models & trends

Rise of the complexity

Change is a

permanent process

Technologies expansion

The face of the next leaders

Strategic Skills & Vision

Self Awareness & Communication + Emotional Intelligence

Inspirational & Charismatic Leadership + Social Intelligence

Execution Skills & Agility

Social Architect & Connector

Formulate guidance and give orientations

More animation and less control

Talent recruiter and developer

Passionate, Engaged

Complexity Savvy

Inspiring & Federative

Embrace ambiguity

Risk taker, fast and flexible

Tech Adopter

Resilience

Persuasive and enthusiastic

Influencer

Open & Self-learner

Creative & Big-Picture Thinker

Transparent & Responsible

Exemplarity Humility Authenticity

Followership and empowerment Clear vision Leverage collaboration

Simplifier in Chief

with every stakeholders : teams, customers, citizens…

Strong communicator, Team player, Customer centric

Prepared for the unknown Forward looking Breakthrough Innovation Intuition

Curious Agile Empathetic

#4 major leadership dimensions

translated in #8 leadership profiles

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About the author

Romain Eyherabide focuses on Executive Search and Management Assessment in the Technology, Communications as well as Media & Entertainment sectors.

He ran several Digital Leadership studies and is part of Kienbaum’s digital practice advising Chief Executive Officers regarding transformation challenges.

He also serves clients on Information & Technology Officers assignments and is particularly knowledgeable in Innovation projects.

Romain Eyherabide

Contact romain.eyherabide@kienbaum.com Kienbaum Paris 47, avenue George V 75008 Paris Tel. 33 (0)1 56 59 12 00 www.kienbaum.com

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