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Want to get ahead? Be paranoid

16,944 views | Lars Fæste • TED@BCG Paris

Lars Fæste helps CEOs transform their businesses and over the years he's noticed something troubling: managers tend to get comfortable during times of success and fail to be on constant lookout for ways to grow. Yet with today's unprecedented rate of change, constant transformation is the norm and adapting to it is the key to staying ahead of competition and volatile market trends. In other words: if it ain't broke, fix it.

Lars Fæste helps CEOs transform their businesses and over the years he's noticed something troubling: managers tend to get comfortable during times of success and fail to be on constant lookout for ways to grow. Yet with today's unprecedented rate of change, constant transformation is the norm and adapting to it is the key to staying ahead of competition and volatile market trends. In other words: if it ain't broke, fix it.

About the speaker

Lars Fæste

Lars Fæste

Transformation manager

BCG's Lars Fæste is a Managing Director and Senior Partner and Global Leader of BCG’s Transformation practice. He also serves as system leader of BCG Greater China. Fæste has extensive experience of large-scale transformations, often in connection with mergers and acquisitions. He has an engineering degree from the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.

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