1、THE CONFERENCE BOARD C-SUITE OUTLOOK 2024Leading for TomorrowWinning Through Change and Disruption2C-SUITE OUTLOOK 2024|LEADING FOR TOMORROWConferenceBoard.orgLeading for Tomorrow:Winning Through Change and DisruptionThe global economys continued weakness;rising operating costs;labor challenges;trad

2、e tensions between the US,China,and Europe;wars in the Middle East and Ukraine;threatening events in the Pacific;and political uncertainty in Latin America all make for a volatile and unsettling global picture for 2024.How can business leaders win through all the chaos and disruption and become tomo

3、rrows leaders with future-ready organizations?Since 1999,The Conference Board has surveyed CEOs and later C-Suite executives across the globe to identify the most critical issues they face and the strategies theyre developing to meet them.Our latest survey,conducted between October 24 and November 2

4、4,2023,asked 1,247 C-Suite executives,including 630 CEOs,for their views on external and internal stress points,emerging AI technology,geopolitical risks,human capital management,and sustainability through the lens of ESG.Setting the Global Economic Context:Slow Growth AheadGlobal real GDP was forec

5、ast to grow by 2.9%in 2023,down from 3.3%in 2022.We expect further slowing to 2.5%in 2024.Economic growth is weighed down by persistent high inflation and continued monetary policy tightening.Looking ahead,we expect relatively subdued economic growth over the next six to 12 months.We see the key ris

6、ks to the global economic outlook still skewed to the downside.The main risk still relates to inflation persistence.Growth forecasts for 2024 are generally strongest in emerging Asian economies,and weakest in Europe and the US.Our 10-year economic outlook continues to point to a prolonged period of