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Leadership Challenges

Leadership Challenges:
Leading in a downturn
Issue 2

For business leaders, the economic downturn promises to be the steepest
learning curve yet. How will you address the present and plan for the future?

Sample Articles

The investment challenge
What will be the general shape of the “New Financial Order”, where precisely new regulation will have pay-backs and where it will very possibly inhibit market development? Jon Moulton weighs up the options.

Jon Moulton
Founder and Managing Partner
Alchemy

The CFO challenge
Andrew Halford looks into the myriad of responsibilities and new challenges that the credit crunch has thrown upon today’s finance director. Andrew Halford
Group Finance Director
Vodafone

Leadership Challenges | 2009
Issue 1

Heading into the new year, business leaders are facing their toughest tests for decades. Are you ready for the challenge?

Sample Articles

Introduction CIMA president Glynn Lowth sets his sights on the year ahead and focuses on key concerns for CIMA members: cashflow, innovation, acquisition, recruitment and ethics.

The energy challenge Shell UK chairman James Smith and BP’s chief accounting officer, Michael Starkie discuss rising demand, diminishing supply and the effects of carbon emissions generated by a fossil fuel driven economy.

The market challenge Chris Moore, CEO of Domino’s Pizza and Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer on the right strategies businesses can employ to navigate the risks.

The economic challenge The economic crisis may have taken some supposed experts by surprise, but that charge cannot be labelled at Vince Cable. Here the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman discusses the credit crunch and its implications for companies across the globe.

The globalisation challenge The accessibility of the flat earth concept of globalisation has allowed it to have a significant influence on the way that companies run. However for IESE’s Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, the power of local difference has been overlooked.


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