Insights That Matter on Leading through Disruption
Strong leadership is crucial in every business. And today – when each disruption faced reveals another right behind – CEOs, executives, and decision-makers encounter immense challenges requiring steady guidance and innovative strategies to navigate this uncertainty.
At times, it may seem like executive leadership is a lonely role, carrying the weight of responsibility in an environment fundamentally changed by the pandemic while tackling each new disruption. But it is through disruptive times that true leaders emerge by facing these challenges head-on with strategic actions – which, in turn, inspires those around them.
In this month’s edition of Insights that Matter, we explore the importance of the resilient leadership needed today, featuring insights and actions from Partner & Managing Director Ted Bililies on how leaders can successfully steer through constant change, still foster a collaborative environment, and retain top talent. You can hear more from Ted and other AlixPartners experts on June 7, 2023, by joining our PE Survey Results Webinar, click here to register.
Solitary confinement: the growing impact of executive isolation
We’ve never been more connected’ – it’s a statement we’ve heard countless times. The beauty of connection and relationships has been the mainstay of most social networks’ propositions for more than a decade now. But is it true? Increasingly it seems that while we are more closely linked technologically and more contactable, we’re not better connected at all. Loneliness is consuming us – around 50% of Americans are measurably lonely – and the longer-term consequences for our health, society and economy could be profoundly disruptive.
Intelligence can be artificial, but empathy cannot
The discussion around AI, its impact on the workplace and, more recently, the potential short and long-term risks has reached fever pitch in the last few months. Driven by seemingly universal interest in OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform, senior executives have been asking, and asked, how this will affect their organization. In parallel, there’s been much speculation on the impact this will have on certain jobs, functions and businesses – in some cases suggesting that AI will effectively replace people in many cases.
Why CEOs need to write a new contract with top talent
In part 1 of this three-part series, the authors explain why leaders must give the best of their talent attractive new options. In part 2, they offered five questions. Part 3 begins below:
In a disrupted world, the CEO must understand that strategy-impacting value can occur anywhere in the organization.
In the early aughts, the Oakland A’s turned the talent scouting industry on its head with the introduction of Sabermetrics: a way of evaluating baseball players based on data rather than scouts’ impressions. The Moneyball approach saw an underdog team scream to prominence in the 2002 season despite a minuscule budget for talent.
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
AlixPartners CEO Simon Freakley shares his insights on the recent banking crisis fallout in the first edition of his LinkedIn Newsletter, On the Minds of CEOs
Last month, notwithstanding the rescue of First Republic over the weekend, markets seem to have caught their breath, following a March full of banking crises that threatened to spill over into the real economy. The end of the era of free money and hyper-low inflation, coupled with the impact of COVID, unprecedented government stimulus, and a fracturing world order, was bound to have its casualties. I suspect there are more to come.
Read more of Simon's insights here.
The Eighth Annual PE Leadership Survey: Sprinters vs. Marathoners
Turmoil and disruption in the business environment make leadership and talent strategy more important than ever for private equity firms and the companies they invest in. They will need new capabilities—and a stronger, more strategic approaches to leadership.
Read and download the results of the survey.
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