Leaders need to adopt new behaviors to succeed in the data-rich, AI-augmented, connected environment of the digital enterprise.

1. Leading the digital enterprise

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Organizations and
workforces will turn
over more rapidly.
Leaders will
practice a new
form of
intelligence.
Digital business trends demand new leadership
practices
Networks will replace
hierarchy as the core
principle of the
organization.
Leaders will live
in their networks.
Workforces will
continue to fragment.
Leaders will integrate
by sharing their
brains.
Artificial intelligence
will become second
nature. Leaders will
have a machine on
their team.

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Leaders will live in their networks
Eliminate bottlenecks in
information flow—encourage
people to build on knowledge rather
than hoard it.
Be an active participant in global
conversations—use social media
savviness to connect to everyone in
the organization.
Shape the debate—engage through
genuine, provocative interactions that
illustrate a leader's principles and
challenge the workforce to respond.

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Leaders will integrate by sharing their brains
Show people what is on your
mind—help people understand
how you see things in the short-
and long-term.
Be present even when you are
absent—achieve a more robust
presence than would be possible
even by the most ambitious internal
media campaign.
Extend the conversation—provide
platforms for others to expand, test
and refine your ideas.

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Leaders will have a machine on their team
Embrace AI—use smart machines
to explore the consequences of a
decision before you make it.
Get ahead of the curve—experiment
and simulate to remove the need to
know everything before proceeding.
Make AI your friend—empower
intelligent machines to ask questions
that challenge the status quo.

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Leaders will practice a new form of intelligence
Practice spiritual intelligence—
bring people together by establishing
a shared purpose.
Create a narrative—develop a story
of the organization’s past, present
and future in light of that shared
purpose.
Cultivate purpose-driven
leadership—build a specialist team
of executives who can articulate the
organization’s purpose and model it
in their own behaviors.

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About the research
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Global
universities
Extensive
secondary
research and
experimentation
37 Executive
interviews
Accenture Institute for High Performance

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Leading the
digital enterprise
Robert J. Thomas
Managing Director of Research
on Leadership, Management and
Workforce Effectiveness
Accenture Institute for High
Performance
robert.j.thomas@accenture.com
Richard Amico
Thought Leadership Senior
Research Analyst on Leadership,
Management and Workforce
Effectiveness
Accenture Institute for High
Performance
richard.amico@accenture.com

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