Following the publication of Leadership in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities, the Singapore Ministry of Manpower convened a Third Executive Roundtable in 2010 to examine the various challenges confronting leadership renewal in the Asian business context, especially in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown and economic downturn of 2009. T

Involving corporate CEOs, Chief Human Resource Officers and leadership thought leaders, the leadership focus group identified four important questions that Asian leaders must address in order to succeed at the highest level:

Where are we going?
How do we get there?
What is work like when we get there?
Who stays and who goes?

With these on their minds, they set about to pinpoint eight success factors and action domains that are crucial in leaders to enable them to

navigate around the pitfalls of being a leader and a change agent in the organisations they lead. These are:

Creating customer-centric actions
Implementing strategy
Getting past the past
Governing through decision making
Inspiring collective meaning making
Capitalising on capability
Developing careers
Generating leaders