The future will not be the same as today. Change is going on around us. In fact, the rate of change is increasing, whether in the social, technological, economic or political fields. Change should be a major concern of leaders, not only in respect of coping with the changes that are going on around us, but even more importantly to lead your respective organisations to change to make sure they remain relevant. In looking at the question of change, the phenomenon of globalisation cannot escape our consideration.
Globalisation has important implications for the role of leaders.
Many qualities of effective leadership and characteristics such as communicating vision, demonstrating integrity, focusing on results, and ensuring customer satisfaction, will never change. But some new factors have emerged as clearly more important for the future. First of all, a leader must henceforth think globally as the trend toward globally connected markets become stronger. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. In future, computer programmers in Bengalore will communicate with designers in Paris to help develop products that are manufactured in Indonesia and sold in China.