Youth power to drive sustainable growth

She says she is excited to observe many new management trainees in their early 20s taking leadership roles and contributing to the team with energy and creativity.

What particularly impressed her is the recent decision by the management trainees to handle their own graduation ceremony. They managed to organize the program in just three weeks.

"The graduation ceremony used to be organized by the human resources department. But this time the young trainees organized their own ceremony, taking care of all the details. It was amazing."

Huang says her leadership is about entrepreneurship, the combination of thinking and action, and love for one's work.

"Entrepreneurship allows one to regard company's work as one's own. Then we need to combine the creative thinking process with concrete action. Finally, you need to love your work, love your team and treat them like family. members."

Also attending the conference were counselors from different countries.

Luminaries for this year's summit included: the former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan; the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus; the CEO of Barclays Bank, Antony Jenkins; the founder and CEO of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales; the CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman; and sports stars Boris Becker and Dame Ellen MacArthur.

One Chinese luminary was Xiang Bing, founding dean and a professor of China business and globalization at the Beijing-based Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Xiang says the conference is important because it allows young people to gain a global perspective. He says the focus on young talent is also significant, as such people are the leaders of the future.

Xiang has talked of businesses "having a global perspective and global view, but also competing globally with compassion".

Compassion means competing without creating so much social disruption, he says, and is a key concept his school tries to champion.

It brought in the subject of humanities into the curriculum in 2004, the first business school in China to do so.

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