A Historic Time When Leadership Matters

Every quarter, VMware creates a comprehensive report that captures trends and the most urgent challenges facing CXOs. In addition to consulting executive surveys, we commission custom research, talk to influential customers and partners—global leaders in their own rights—and put it all together to offer a unique snapshot into the state of global business.

Our report for the second quarter of 2020 found that the evolving COVID-19 landscape is taking its toll on CXOs—financially, logistically, and emotionally. Now is one of those historic times in which leadership will make a difference between businesses that wane, merely subsist, or flourish. True leaders will pull through, but not without difficulty. VMware has identified three key challenges, along with expert advice about how to deal with them.