In a series of short video highlights, eminent world business leader, Dominic Barton, explores disruptive forces and how business must change.
There are four forces transforming the global landscape at an unprecedented pace and scale: changing global growth dynamics, accelerating industry disruption, an aging population and the search for a new 'societal ideal.'
How can business change and thrive in the new reality?
- The shift of economic power from west to east
- Technology accelerating industry disruption
- Searching for a new 'societal ideal'
- Implications for organisations
- About the speaker and the lecture series
The shift of economic power from west to east
Rodney Wylie Lectures 2019 Part 1 - The shift of economic power from west to east from UQ Business, Economics and Law on Vimeo.
Technology accelerating industry disruption
Rodney Wylie Lectures 2019 Part 2 - Technology accelerating industry disruption from UQ Business, Economics and Law on Vimeo.
Searching for a new 'societal ideal'
Rodney Wylie Lectures 2019 Part 3 - Searching for a new 'societal ideal' from UQ Business, Economics and Law on Vimeo.
Implications for organisations
Rodney Wylie Lectures 2019 Part 4 - Implications for organisations from UQ Business, Economics and Law on Vimeo.
About the speaker
Dominic Barton is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and served as Global Managing Partner from 2009 to 2018.
He serves as Chairman of Teck Resources, is the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, the Chair of Standard Chartered Bank’s International Advisory Council, the Chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth and was Chair of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council for the past six years.
He is also a Senior Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member of the Singapore Economic Development Board’s International Advisory Council, and a member of the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is one of the founders of FCLT Global (Focusing Capital on the Long Term), has co-authored four books, including Talent Wins, published in 2018 and is also an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA Honours in economics and has a M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
About the series
Dominic Barton presented at Customs House, Brisbane, in 2019, as part of the Rodney Wylie Eminent Visiting Fellowship program. The Rod Wylie program brings a globally-respected visitor to The University of Queensland each year to provide intellectual leadership and engage with alumni and community through an annual public lecture. Find out more about the Rod Wylie Lectures.
