Focus on diversity in leadership. Create your base of leaders with different skills, styles and experience. Move your people into leadership roles to make the best use of their unique skills.
2. Develop resilience and adaptability
Your leaders must be able to adapt to an unpredictable environment that is rapidly changing. Support them using training, coaching and other development tools. Feel free to rotate your leaders across various countries.
3. Promote innovation
Successful companies are prepared to come up with innovation, even though it may jeopardize their current products and business models. Leaders must have courage to do this. Then they can lead the direction the whole industry takes.
4. Do not be afraid about conflicts
Your leaders must know that conflicts are not a bad thing and so they should not avoid them. They should encourage all employees to learn that they can openly express their views to motivate one another to be more creative.
The entire study is available for downloading on the Deloitte's website: Global Human Capital Trends 2013. The part focused on leadership development can be downloaded here: Leadership.Next: Debunking the superhero myth.
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Article source Deloitte - multinational company providing audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services