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New skills needed to climb those green tech hills

Green and clean technologies will need to grow to world scale to have real impact in combating climate change. To achieve this, a new leadership profile is needed, which we call the “extreme corporate entrepreneur CEO” – uniquely entrepreneurial and operational.

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Anita Hoffmann
Anita Hoffmann

Governments and educators need to consider whether today’s executive education should be complemented with development programs geared at instilling vibrant corporate entrepreneurship principles in the young leaders of the next decade.

These skills will not only ensure that the solutions for climate change grow to scale, but will also help traditional sectors renew and expand. The future of both our environment and the returns for investors in clean technology are at stake; hanging on the ability of new technologies to grow to scale.

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