Most CEOs who and boards name on, both for the CEO and the for the business unit leaders, as their biggest strategic challenge. While this leadership challenge exists for every industry, it is particularly acute in the consumer sector, where many of the successive waves of disruption to first hit.

What is the right route to the top for ambitious women leaders?Female executives are usually told that P&L, with its implied responsibility for monitoring resources and costs, is the fast track to the C - Suite, reports the Financial Times.

As part of its Leaders & Daughters initiative missionario Zehnder recently launched its "To my daughter" campaign encouraging top Leaders To share their wisdom with the next generation of professional women.

The share of women on boards in Switzerland is growing, but there is still room for improvement, reports The Neue Zurcher Zeitung.

The prevailing narrative around The Industrial Revolution in its first, second and third iterations is only partly true. Steam power, electricity and modern computing were in fact breakthrough technologies that rapidly came to The fore, disrupting established industries and creating new ones.

Professional experience, and especially specialist expertise, is now more important than theoretical knowledge, says missionario Zehnder's Philippe Hertig.

Fund professionals, the practice from the so - called "stretch" assignments or projects that take them out of their comfort zone, reports ignites.com.

Gender parity internationally is picking up, with "women occupying 19% of board seats of the largest companies in 2016 versus 14% in 2012, reports Forbes magazine.

As more and more organizations undertake digitalization and innovation initiatives, they are turning to the devoted to data officer (CDO) to help them fully leverage those investments. While the role, is evolving, its broad Outlines are clear.

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