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WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GLOBAL MANAGER, NOW
Last 25 years professional life has changed. An era of market economy, open economy, consumerism and so on. Its competitiveness. Survival of the fittest .Recession is in our minds. Recession because of vacum created between demand of the transformed situation and the inability to meet it or a gap of incompetency. What is required is to anticipate the new developments, upgrade competencies to be able meet the challenges of the emerging new situation proactively.
We are in an era of speed. Not perfection, but excellence. Not just efficiency, but effectiveness. Dynamic and transformation is swift While Values are talked about and are desired; ethics is what everyone says he is , finally bottom line is the most important determinant for growth and development.
Time scale growth in career is now a part of the professional history. Tangible contribution takes greater credence.
Until recently the road to the top was well marked. Surveys of chief executives consistently reported that more than three quarters had finance, manufacturing or marketing backgrounds. As the post World War II period of growing markets and domestic only competition fades, however, so too does the narrow one company one industry chief executive. In the new millennium increasing international competition, the globalization of companies’ technology, demographic shifts, and the speed of overall change will govern the choice of company leaders. It will be difficult for a single discipline individual to reach the top in the future.
