Businesses Need to Bring Younger Employees into Their Leadership Ranks

Today’s most intractable challenges require an intergenerational approach.

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Adam Job

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Adam Job

October 12, 2023

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Summary.

Businesses play a crucial role in tackling the challenges of our times, such as climate change. To enhance their effectiveness in this arena, they must become more curious to develop the innovations we require, as well as more eager to adapt their behaviors accordingly. Today’s aging leadership structures can hinder this. Striving towards intergenerational leadership is key to overcoming these issues and unlocking competitive advantage by enhancing businesses’ capacity for renewal.

Addressing challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss will require technical innovations. As such, a strong curiosity for unearthing new approaches is key. But just as crucial is that we are willing, even eager, to change our beliefs and behaviors accordingly.

Martin Reeves is the chairman of Boston Consulting Group’s BCG Henderson Institute in San Francisco and a coauthor of The Imagination Machine (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021).
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Felix Rüdiger is head content & research of the St. Gallen Symposium, a global platform for cross-generational dialogue at the University of St. Gallen. He co-leads the symposium’s joint initiative with the Club of Rome for “A New Generational Contract,” which fosters long-term, sustainable strategizing in business and public policy.
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Arthur Boulenger is a consultant in BCG’s Dubai office and an ambassador to the Strategy Lab at the BCG Henderson Institute.
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Adam Job is the director of the Strategy Lab at the BCG Henderson Institute.

Businesses Need to Bring Younger Employees into Their Leadership Ranks

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