Do you think you can lead?

YOU are intelligent, clear, brave and perceptive. You know your business or your specialisation well. You get along with people and think you are generally a good judge of them. You are confident, but well aware that if you are not learning every step of the way, you will soon fall behind others. You make mistakes and call them lessons.

You are potentially in line to become the next CEO of your organisation. You have not been a CEO before. Your business is gradually becoming international - not in a frantic rush but steadily. It needs to. Your competitors are already established in many countries. Your company has been mainly local and, more recently, regional. Now it needs to develop internationally either by acquisition or by in-country growth. The Board thinks it has set the strategy by declaring this priority. Whoever becomes CEO will be there to prove them right.

What will be the critical requirements of the next CEO?