Looking Ahead to 2024
CEO North America / December 2023 – January 2024
As the rollercoaster year of 2023 sputters to a close with a mixed bag of lower overall earnings but unexpected fourth quarter resilience, all corporate eyes are now focused on the year ahead, with hopes of a modest recovery and a much-needed drop in interest rates by the Federal Reserve as 2024 takes shape.
If 2023 taught us anything, it is that in today’s rapidly metamorphosing economy, companies and CEOs need to be able to adapt to change quickly and move past antiquated business models, transforming themselves and their corporations to accommodate unpredictable market demands that can shift from one day to the next.
The At the Front section of this edition of CEO-NA looks at how captains of industry and business leaders of all stripes are coping with this need for their companies to evolve or die, as expressed by more than 4,000 Chief Executive Officers surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, offering clear steps that can be taken now to keep productivity and earnings on track in the years ahead.
The magazine also examines what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce believes to be the root causes of the current labor shortage and why the Royal Bank of Canada is convinced that financial uncertainty is the new normal in the Great White North.
The Harvard Business Review provides insights into how CEOS can most effectively communicate their corporate vision to their employees, and the MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the potency of shortcut decisions in times of crises or dramatic change.
In our At the Back section, we present one manager’s innovative vision of the birth of a new artificial-intelligence-based society as the onset of a second “age of enlightenment,” and FlexJobs Corporation underscores the top red flags that show how many corporations are alienating workers with ambiguous or even contradictory visions of a hybrid workplace.
Those looking for an end-of-year get-away that will elevate their spirits should check out our travel section on Christmas in the Rockies.
Thérèse Margolis
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In Depth Interviews with…
054-059 Heather Lavallee, CEO and President / Voya Financial, Inc.
060-069 Jim Brown, President and CEO / USANA Health Sciences, Inc.
070-073 Rudy D. Garza, President and CEO / CPS Energy
074-085 Thomas Warsop, President and CEO / ACI Worldwide, Inc.
086-095 Paul Hennessy, CEO / Shutterstock, Inc.
092-099 Lucas Haldeman, CEO and Founder / SmartRent Inc.
