Resilience, confidence and pivots - What leaders need

Returning this week to the insights from the Mindshop 2019 business leader report, our third key insight is that business confidence has declined.

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There are multiple factors that have contributed to this according to the study and these include:

· Tighter bank lending conditions

· Political change

· Business complexity

· Pace of change

· Uncertainty and instability in the customer base

· Emerging disruptive technologies

· Mental health challenges

As the study identifies, change in the business world is both constant and high pace. There is certainly plenty of evidence of high levels of stress, anxiety and depression among business people as they become exhausted with the myriad of conflicting challenges that they face.

What is most concerning for business, is that nearly all of these factors demonstrate an increasing propensity towards an external locus of control.