Leadership quality, customer focus and the unremitting pace of globalization are among the top challenges facing competitive organizations in 2005, according to a panel of eight business management experts interviewed recently by BetterManagement, the comprehensive Internet resource for decisive leadership.

“We asked thought leaders from around the world to describe the most significant challenges facing competitive organizations in 2005,” said Jeanette Slepian, President of BetterManagement. “The panelists agreed that globalization continues to radically transform the business environment. As a result, leaders everywhere face unrelenting pressure to achieve more with less, to maximize the value of customer relationships and to realize the full potential of human capital investments.”

John Brandt of the MPI Group predicted that managing globalization will continue to create headaches for corporations throughout the world. Relationships between stakeholders become more complex. Increased global trade often causes local problems, said Brandt.

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