Subject: Leadership in an Age of Technological Disruption
From: "Paul Laudicina" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:03:34 -0500

Dear Hunter,
  
Summer is hopefully a time to unwind and reflect a bit. My July Forbes columns are my attempt to take a step back and examine some of the political and commercial leadership attributes in ever greater demand given the exponential impact of technology, all at once incredibly enabling and fundamentally challenging.  At our annual Global Business Policy Council CEO Retreat last month in Silicon Valley, we convened 75 CEOs and thought leaders for a discussion of Technology's Double Edge. As I reflected (https://www.atkearney.com/gbpc-restructure/detail/-/asset_publisher/0cePdOWatojD/content/disruption-really-is-the-name-of-the-game/10192?_101_INSTANCE_0cePdOWatojD_redirect=/gbpc) earlier this month, mitigating the threat from disruption seemed to be top-of-mind for participants, as the source of innovation shifts from within to outside of organizations, necessitating a strategic shift in thinking for today's business leaders.
  
Inspired by technology, this month on forbes.com I looked to some of today's (http://onforb.es/1elCit5) most controversial and celebrated corporate leaders, all of whom have been at the forefront of their respective industries—Elon Musk, Ferdinand Piech, and the late Steve Jobs. Obviously confronting somewhat different challenges in their companies, in my view the traits that make a leader great today are not so different from those of the past.   
  
And since earlier this month the United States celebrated its Independence Day and we are already reaching fever pitch for the 2016 U.S. presidential election (!), it seemed only fitting to look to the source of much of the inspiration underlying the American “experiment”,  the country’s visionary Founding Fathers (http://onforb.es/1IEnHFy).
  
Thanks for letting me share these reflections with you.
  
Best,
 
Paul

Chairman Emeritus, A.T. Kearney
and Chairman of Global Business Policy Council

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