Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018

The Mining Journal Global Leadership Report: Preparing for Transformation speaks to the industry about the challenges it is currently facing and the preparedness to make the necessary changes to thrive in a shifting landscape.

The research has tapped into the thinking of 21 executives from the world's largest miners, representing an aggregated market capitalisation of $367 billion; and synthesised the responses from another 518 professionals from across the industry.

The result is a comprehensive review of the factors driving transformation, engagement levels between leadership groups and their employees on transformation messaging, leadership planning for the future, and the success rate for change programmes. A review of desirable leadership traits, threats and opportunities is included.

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Foreword

Photos: Newmont Mining Corporation / Anglo American

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Mining with principles

With an increasing focus on stakeholder engagement, we need to show our commitment to mining with principles

Executive Summary

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Executive Summary

We shine a light on the process of business transformation in the mining industry and prioritise the most desirable leadership attributes in the current environment.

Transformation

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Execution success

We asked those who identified themselves within the leadership grouping to rate their success in executing transformative programmes and, separately, asked those who identified within the employee grouping to assess their leadership team on effectiveness executing transformative programmes.

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Employee engagement

One of the themes we heard across the executive interviews was the need to take the whole company through the transformation process together to stand a chance of success

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Long-term planning

The questioning around long-term planning meeting frequencies was another attempt to gauge commitment levels to the transformation process by asking how often the leadership team met to discuss issues beyond a three-year horizon.

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Importance of transformation

if the industry hasn’t been giving transformative issues their full attention up to now, they are certainly beginning to

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Drivers of transformation

Overall, the greatest driver of transformation was Digitisation.

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Transformation: introduction

We asked respondents to our digital survey five questions under the Transformation theme to extract targeted information.

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Leader: A new people equation

Transformation is necessary and we can develop the skills to make the process successful

Aims & Methodology

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Mining Journal Global Leadership Report 2018: Aims & Methodology

The primary aim of this research is to understand the process of transformation as seen by the key leaders in the mining sector and, then, to compare those attitudes with those across the broader mining industry.