Who Owns Tariffs At Your Company? The New Rules of Leadership in 2025
I just got off the phone with the CEO of a global corporation with a $75B market cap who was expressing a common challenge: her team needs to learn how to collaborate now more than ever. The old rules of leadership, where silos were merely inefficient, no longer apply. Today, silos mean death. The complexity of the global marketplace in 2025 demands new ways of working, ones that reject traditional departmental boundaries. Take tariffs, for instance. Historically, the only leader worried about tariffs was the head of public affairs due to their lobbying efforts. But the world has shifted dramatically. Given the current administration’s policy changes, tariffs no longer fit neatly into a...
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