 Traditionally, the key skills for CEOs have been industry-specific expertise, superior administrative ability, and a track record of successfully managing resources from finance to people. Today, most boards and leaders find these skills necessary but insufficient. What has changed and why? The world's become very volatile, uncertain, and that's impacted how every business needs to adapt to very rapidly changing external environment. Nothing exemplified this more than the COVID pandemic, which turned the whole world upside down. And to stay ahead of the curve, companies and boards are constantly reflecting on what should be the emerging business models for growth. And therefore, to compete with such disruptions, boards and leaders need to exhibit an attitude of resilience and develop skills that equip them to adapt to these rapidly emerging changing circumstances, changing customer needs at a breakneck pace and be very agile to keep with technological disruptions. You need to be very comfortable in your skin with technology. You need to be able to see beyond boundaries and make sure that you have the skillsets and the capabilities to operate horizontally rather than just operating in vertical silos, build networks, connections within the company, outside the company.