国际经贸高级英语10.ppt

Unit TenLeaders Today—Arthur Andersen Business Consulting TEXT Over the course of the last 30 years, perhaps no subject has been treated so extensively in business literature as that of leadership. Despite this, leadership seems to be experiencing a renaissance as the focus of a myriad of books, articles, seminars, and conferences. Why this rekindled interest in a topic that seems so well covered? We believe it is because an entirely new form of leadership is critical to the renewal and growth that are the “what next?” of reengineering and corporate downsizing. Perhaps nowhere is the need for redefinition so strong as in the corporate finance organization, where business partnering and people skills are replacing number crunching as the most sought-after abilities. Visionary leadership will be the engine for this change. To better understand what causes such leaders to emerge, the Finance Leadership Council at Motorola, joined with Arthur Andersen to conduct a year-long study of leadership development practices at 19 organizations. Unit TenLeaders Today—Arthur Andersen Business Consulting “We consciously looked outside the finance organisation for ideas”, says Edgardo Pappacena, partner in charge of Arthur Andersen Business Consulting’s Change Enablement practice and leading partner for the study. “We had a strong belief that transformational insights would not be tied to function. Looking outside finance got us thinking more creatively”. To extend the team’s thinking further, interviews were conducted not only with multinational corporations that matched Motorola in size and global reach, but also with other organisations that offered the potential for ‘out-of-the-box’ insights. The goal of the study was to gain insights about: ·Processes for identifying and developing next-generation leadership; ·Environments that encourage the emergence or growth of leaders; ·Ways of measuring success in de