Developing effective leadership skills
Accenture research on business agility shows that leaders stand apart from other companies on nearly every dimension of agility—they actively build seasoned and diverse management teams, prioritize strategic decisions, speed up decision making, prepare their ecosystems to act quickly, and invest in and use analytics to run their organizations. As part of this research we asked industry leaders to share their thoughts on traits of truly agile businesses. In this video Michael Useem, director, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management, highlights three critical steps to developing effective leadership skills: Become active self-directed students of leadership; find great coaches and mentors; and, get into the game. Learn more about Accenture’s research on Traits of Truly Agile Businesses: www.accenture.com/businessagility
