CEO’s of the future will be extraordinary human beings. They will be challenged to be more inclusive, embrace a greater diversity of stakeholders and achieve through teams.
They will be window and mirror ( Jim Collins, Good to Great) practitioners firmly keeping their egos in a box giving credit always to others for success and taking personal responsibility for failure. They will be interested in a wider range of results and they will be careful to make sure that results produced in the short term lay the basis for increased results over the strategic horizon. They will find real, useful measures of financial and economic; workplace, social and community; and environmental performance and they will publicise under performance more than any outperformance.
They will understand that if they are to achieve this super hero status, share price, quarterly results and political cycles, though important, must be blackened by the shadow which falls on them from a superior Vision, an unshakable Value System and a Mission so loved by all who contribute to its fulfilment that nothing can stop it.
The question is, given this range of requirements, can they be human or must they be something other. Cyborg? AI?
