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David Meyer, Alan Murray

2022 will be a year of continuing transformation

Tourists holding a '2022' sign slide down a slope at Beijing Yuyuantan Park on New Year's Day on January 1, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Credit: Du Yang—China News Service/Getty Images)

Good morning, and Happy New Year!

As I wrote before the holidays, 2022 is destined to be a year of continuing transformation for business, fueled by: 1) a technology revolution; 2) a post-pandemic imperative to reinvent office work; and 3) a continuing drive to put purpose at the center of business. The most successful companies will be those that embrace these three interlocking waves of change. And the performance gap between those that do and those that don’t will grow.

At Fortune, our goal for 2022 is to help business leaders and investors successfully surf those waves.  As always, this begins with our journalism. Under the guidance of new editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell, the team is staffing up to cover these historic transformations and continue Fortune’s 92-year tradition of informing and inspiring the best in business while exposing the worst. In addition, we’ll continue a 67-year-old tradition of providing the leading benchmarks for business success with our rankings that include the Fortune 500, 100 Best Companies to Work For, Most Powerful Women, Change the World, Future 50, 40-Under-40, and more. If you aren’t already a subscriber, this is the year to become one. CEO Daily readers can get a special New Year’s discount by going here, and using the code CEODAILY.

In addition, we’ll be building on our more recent efforts to educate a new generation of business leaders through Fortune CONNECTour leadership and learning community that now includes more than 1,000 senior executives from Salesforce, Workday, Accenture, PayPal, IBM, GenPact, and some 20 other leading companies that recognize the transformations ahead demand a new generation, and a new style of leadership. We will be opening the community to qualified individual applicants this spring. If you are interested in exploring membership, check it out here. And we will continue to grow Fortune Education as a reliable source of ratings, rankings and reviews for those who recognize lifelong learning is increasingly key to business success.

Pandemic permitting, we will be hosting in-person convenings of our best-in-class executive communities including Brainstorm Health (Marina del Ray, CA, May 10-11), Brainstorm Design (Brooklyn, NY, May 23-24), Brainstorm Tech (Aspen, CO, July 11-13), Most Powerful Women Summit (Laguna Niguel, CA, Oct. 10-12), as well as the CEO Initiative Summit and Most Powerful Women Next Gen (dates and times in the fall TBD.) Having honed our hybrid skills over the last two years, we also will offer a steady stream of virtual gatherings for these communities and others, including the Fortune Global Forum and the CFO Collaborative. You can learn more about our executive communities here.

For my part, I’ll continue to chronicle these changes at CEO Daily along with my colleague David Meyer; I’ll join co-host Ellen McGirt for a third season of our weekly podcast Leadership Next; and in May, Public Affairs will release my book attempting to explain what’s driving business to change: Tomorrow’s Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. You can preorder here.

A busy year ahead. Stick with us and help make business better.

Alan Murray
@alansmurray

alan.murray@fortune.com

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