ABSTRACT

There is a fundamental mismatch between the way we organise our senior management teams and the way modern commerce has evolved. Wrapping finesse, technology, rules, bureaucracy, and “science” around our C-Suite conventions, designed for nineteenth-century businesses, is not nearly enough to meet the challenges of modern business environments and practices.

This book is for executives who want to enable their C-Suite, and by extension their organizations, to survive and thrive into the future. It will help them to foresee future challenges and provide suggestions for new working practices at executive level to successfully adapt to those changes. How should executive teams organize themselves, reinvent their roles, and work with stakeholders to evolve and innovate? What is the role of the new C-grade executive – managers, leaders, or something else?

Executives and aspiring executives will find new challenges for organizations and ways to deal with them. Forward-thinking business students will find startling ideas and practical tools for viewing business and its activities. What is the next evolution of the executive function in organizations? This book explores how we can predict it, shape it, and succeed in it.

part 1|116 pages

The challenges facing the C-Suite

chapter Chapter Three|9 pages

Generations in the workplace as a challenge for the C-Suite

chapter Chapter Four|9 pages

Information inputs as a challenge to the C-Suite

chapter Chapter Five|13 pages

Digital transformation and its effects on the organization

chapter Chapter Six|19 pages

The world of work

chapter Chapter Seven|13 pages

Organizational change, pressure, and speed

chapter Chapter Nine|11 pages

What customers want yesterday

chapter Chapter Ten|8 pages

Business ecosystems change everything

part 2|101 pages

The evolving C-Suite

chapter Chapter eleven|13 pages

The mind and motivations of the C-Suite

chapter Chapter Twelve|17 pages

The role of the C-Suite

chapter Chapter thirteen|18 pages

The skills and attributes of the C-Suite

chapter Chapter Fourteen|15 pages

The evolving organization

chapter Chapter Fifteen|12 pages

Evolving the C-Suite

chapter Chapter sixteen|7 pages

The way forward – the transition of the C-Suite

chapter Chapter seventeen|13 pages

Being curious – further reading