Leadership now means thinking across industries

When we picture leaders, we still tend to imagine experts anchored firmly in one sector—finance, education, health, or technology—each fluent in its own metrics and jargon. We rarely imagine leaders whose core skill is crossing boundaries: learning from a superyacht builder how to rethink a university or borrowing ideas from luxury crafts to redesign public institutions. Yet that is precisely the kind of leadership our world now demands. Modern organizations operate in ecosystems, not silo...