BCG CEO CIRCLE 2024
Leadership Development
Turning Superheroes into a Super Leadership Team
In a complex, fast-changing world, leadership teams are facing challenges that are bigger than ever while trying to reach goals that are sometimes seemingly at odds. A super leadership team must:
- Guide the organization’s transformation while ensuring near-term performance.
- Shift from being a group of individual “superheroes” championing their own domains to putting the enterprise first—sometimes at the expense of team members’ individual agendas.
- Recognize the necessary behaviors and norms that will advance the enterprise and then codifying and cultivating them.
Leadership teams should begin by fostering the attributes we metaphorically call the Head, Heart, and Hands. Then, they should follow a three-stage approach of reflecting, committing, and practicing the right behaviors and norms—and making a habit of it.
Cost Management
Conquering the Cost Challenge in Europe
In the current business environment, cost management is a critical priority for companies worldwide. Jacopo Brunelli, a managing director and senior partner in BCG’s Operations practice, says that when it comes to the European market, the real challenge in cost transformation isn’t capturing the initial benefits but making them stick over time.
Leadership Development
How CEOs Can Navigate a Polarized World
A conspicuous quiet permeates the corporate world lately—a trend all the more notable given that, not long ago, chief executives of the world’s largest corporations were airing views on a host of politically charged topics. In the US, company leaders raced to sign open letters protesting rollbacks of LGBTQ+ rights, advertised their support of Black Lives Matter, and even threatened to cancel investments in states that weakened voting rights
Leadership Development
The Cybersecure CEO
Until recently, accountability for cybersecurity issues tended to be pushed to chief information or security officers. Those days are gone. New disclosure and transparency rules in the US and Europe, growing criminal capabilities, and the soaring cost of attacks are vaulting cybersecurity to the very top of the CEO agenda.
Innovation Strategy and Delivery
Most innovative Companies 2024
Here’s a paradox. Companies have never placed a higher priority on innovation—yet they have never been as unready to deliver on their innovation aspirations. It’s a recipe for disappointment. BCG’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies report examines the readiness gap and offers perspectives on how companies can get back on track.
Meet the Speakers of CEO Circle 2024
Suzie Wolff
Managing Director of the F1 Academy and former CEO & Managing Partner of the VENTURI Formula-E Team, former professional racing driver and Fl test driver
