subject: 5 Skills Expected of Modern Industrial Leaders [print this page] As the rules of doing business within a fiercely competitive industrial and manufacturing environment continue to evolve, so too, do the requirements for world-class management leadership within these markets. In fact, the demands of corporate leadership have never been higher in the industrial and manufacturing markets. The new leadership challenge is to cope with an increasingly faster and 'flat' world, to benefit from ever faster changes by having the courage to exploit new opportunities by leading change instead of following.
