Tuesday, April 1, 2008

10 Trends - Center for Creative Leadership

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is an organization focused on leadership education and research. I went through their Leadership Foundations Series 15 years ago and still remember it as the best educational experience of my career.

CCL has many great publications including white papers and articles in addition to their education services. One recent study is similar to the PWC CEO survey that I discussed in my 3/3/2008 post "PWC Survey and Change". That study "10 Trends - A Study of Senior Executives' Views on the Future" is a very good read.

I'll let you read the study but the trends reviewed in the document are:

Trend 1: The Rise of Complex Challenges
Trend 2: The Innovation Revolution
Trend 3: The Art of Virtual Leadership
Trend 4: Collaboration Nation
Trend 5: The World of Interruption
Trend 6: Authenticity Is the Next Celebrity
Trends 7 & 8: The Fallout from the Baby Boom
Trend 9: Leadership for Longevity
Trend 10: What’s Next?

As with the PWC Survey - talent, innovation and collaboration are themes. But there were differences - the PWC Survey was a survey of CEO's - the 10 Trends survey was Senior Leadership (31% CEO or President) with most of the remaining participants being Vice Presidents or Directors. The difference in input resulted in a few interesting differences in output.

Where the PWC Survey showed a frustration on the part of CEO's with "buy in" to plans on the part of senior and middle management the CCL Study showed an interest in "Authentic" senior leadership. The CCL study indicated a concern with the change over in leadership as the baby boomers retire and organizations loose the continuity of this large group of executives. The PWC Study expressed an interest in more effective government involvement.

The focus of these studies had many overlaps and many differences - but both are very good reads.

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