The global economy’s continued weakness; rising operating costs; labor challenges; trade 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 tomorrow’s 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 they’re developing to meet them. Our latest survey, conducted between October 24 and November 24, 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.