Weak leadership development planning in global companies

According to a study by Accenture's Institute for High Performance, leading global companies are doing little to develop leaders or create a pipeline of global leaders. The research covers 50 senior executives in 39 global companies across five continents. The research showed that for the top 1 per cent to 2 per cent of executives to be effective in a global environment, its leadership group must be agile, demonstrate foresight and be able to use synthetic intelligence through a combination of experience and analytics.

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