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Skills Needed In Digital Leaders
- Work together, complement each other, and function as a team.
- Able to operate on and enable environments that are more dynamic, team-centric, and connected.
- Lead and build teams and partner with the broader ecosystems, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Lead a workforce that includes contractors, the contingent workforce, and crowd talent.
- Understand how different business functions, industries, and technologies come together to form solutions.
- Comfortable and competent with risk-taking.
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- Adapting to constantly shifting power and influence
- Collaborating with ease across many different teams
- Valuing the contribution of new work partners and different interest groups
- Investing huge amounts of energy into getting things right. Try, fail and try again
- Conceptualizing possibilities in a virtual world
- Handling ever increasing cognitive complexity
- Thinking divergently about new ways of doing things
- Making decisions quickly without all of the information
- Digital investors: Executives who embrace the VC mind-set, uncover opportunities, educate, invest in talent and ideas, forge partnerships, conduct the transition to a digital model and build an ecosystem that fosters innovation.
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- Tolerating an environment of risk and ambiguity
- Showing resilience in the face of constant change
- Being brave in challenging how things are being done
- Having the confidence to take the lead in driving change
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