The 10 Most Futuristic Business Leaders To Watch in 2023

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Editor Note

The Prominent Business Leaders Shaping the Future of Business

Like civilizations, businesses also flourish and fall with the times. Similar to how certain leaders remain in power for decades while others lose it within a short period of time. For exceptional leaders, however, the road to success is never smooth, and they are not endowed with a silver spoon and a sizable economic legacy. Business leaders' sheer tenacity and passion provide doors to bigger projects and better prospects.

Brilliant brains and business ideas combine to build globally successful and sustainable businesses. These million-dollar concepts are created through innovation, and numerous business leaders have contributed to the notable growth of their industries and, ultimately, to the prosperity of the nation.

Excellent leadership is the only way to create long-term success. In the business landscape, inspiring and unique stories are often written by dynamic leaders who start from scratch. Armed with an idea and a clear vision, they build a successful company brick by brick, which has the potential to disrupt an industry or become an incredible movement. A strong and futuristic corporate leader has many qualities, including the capacity to inspire others and the ability to articulate a compelling vision that others can get behind.

Our latest issue focuses on influential business figures who are driving the future of business. While there is a continuous emergence of entrepreneurs and business leaders, there are only a few key executives who have reached the status of futuristic leaders with their innovative ideas, bold strategies, and cutting-edge technologies. We have endeavored to dive deeper into their success stories and understand how some of the innovative business leaders have reached their current position, showcased their leadership abilities, and were unfazed in the face of challenges.

Each story is an endeavor towards achieving goals bigger than an individual and shaping the future of business. We hope our readers find the edition a valuable read.

Yusuke Asano CEO | One Act, Inc.

Yusuke Asano

An Award-Winning Leader, Offering Comprehensive DigitalSolutions at One Act, Inc.

This inside story depicts the inspiring tale of One Act, Inc., under the stewardship of its CEO, Yusuke Asano.

Artificial intelligence is one of the technological innovations that have the potential to completely change our perspective of the world and is firmly setting up its foothold in the business world, for many good reasons. In this exciting new field, One Act has established itself as a pioneer and trailblazer.

Yusuke Asano, a visionary from Japan, is carving a niche for specialization in these areas. Recently, our magazine had the privilege of an interview with Yusuke Asano in which he shared interesting highlights of the company, One Act, and his professional journey at its outset. The elegant read covers the freewheeling discussion that followed.

Yusuke’s Professional Journey

Yusuke began his career at Keyence, a business with the third-largest capital in Japan after Toyota and Sony. He acquired the expertise required to "improve the effectiveness of the production process" at that time. The industry veteran also successfully handled the founding of two venture companies, displaying excellent managerial abilities.

He is now making use of that information and those skills to make a breakthrough in the software development process. As of now, this innovation is PieceX, the first marketplace for software components powered by AI.

One Act: The World’s First AI Source Code Marketplace

One Act is a multinational startup with locations in France, India, the UK, and the US that develops software and artificial intelligence technology. The company is dedicated to the creation and administration of PieceX, a cutting-edge web application that serves as the first source code marketplace driven by AI around the globe.

Through PieceX, software components may be traded on a worldwide scale, enabling sellers to generate additional revenue from the source code itself and buyers to save the time and expense of software development by 80% by buying ready-to-use source codes. With a history of transactions spanning more than 200 nations, PieceX has built a cutting-edge web infrastructure that allows anyone to rapidly develop new services and establish an emerging economy.

One Act has a strong customer base that includes everyone who creates new products and services. IT,

often known as software development, has become crucial for all services in the modern world.

to be developed in accordance with international standards.

PieceX offers a solution to that, as it can dramatically reduce the programming and testing processes of software development by distributing ready-to-use and verified software source code.

This positions PieceX on the pathway to becoming a global infrastructure, poised to revolutionise the sector, open up previously unimaginable prospects for software professionals, and greatly improve the productivity and efficiency of software development processes everywhere.

More than 200 nations and regions are currently using PieceX, with significant uptake by software development firms in the US, India, and Europe.

Overcoming the Obstacles Along the Way

Since source code is a completely global standard, there is no possibility that the source code created in one country cannot be used in another country.

As a result of the widespread demand for its services, One Act has a global target audience. Yusuke Asano is Japanese, but as the country's first employee, he understood that rather than relying simply on Japanese viewpoints, the service needed

That caused an issue, but Yusuke overcame it by expanding internationally and diversifying his business. Although they are only getting started, they already have wonderful members from 12 different nations.

How Yusuke Wishes to be Remembered by His Peers?

“From a professional perspective, what I want people to keep in mind is that our service, PieceX, has already generated new value by enabling "anyone to purchase and sell corporate source code," regardless of their location or area of expertise. Because so many people still don't understand it, they waste a lot of time creating software from scratch, using open-source software, employing no-code services, or somehow using artificial intelligence to do it for them” asserted Yusuke.

“Purchasing the previously produced source code is the fastest option. I want to be known for developing a system that makes it quick and simple for anyone to buy and sell source codes, opening up new revenue streams and extending the reach of software development” he further added.

The Competitive Edge

The first premium enterprise source code marketplace in the world is called PieceX. They are the innovators who are bringing this to the rest of the globe. The company's AI engine, which incorporates dynamic pricing, quality control, and recommendations among other ever-evolving features, is the platform's strongest asset.

Further, the inspiring man shared, "We are proud to have obtained a patent in Japan, and an application has been submitted in the United States. We help people and solve significant challenges for people with great ideas who may otherwise give up due to the high cost and time investment required for software development."

Software development firms also value the ability PieceX gives them to concentrate resources on the most important parts of their projects.

Giving Back to the Community

"The greatest contribution to society is to create a global infrastructure!" Yusuke Asano

In addition to transportation and logistics, web infrastructure is currently very important. Yusuke and his team give back to society by providing a service that enables individuals and businesses to unlock their full potential and drive positive change in the world.

Additionally, it will repay its wealth in the form of investments in the infrastructure of the following generation.

One Act in the Future

"While our services have been deployed globally, we acknowledge that there is still much to be done in terms of spreading awareness. Even though I prefer to shy away from the spotlight, interviews like this one provide us with a chance to share our vision and connect with a larger audience," asserted the magnificent man on being asked.

AI is evolving rapidly. Yusuke is eager to observe how AI develops over the next five years. Their ultimate goal is to make it possible for consumers to effortlessly utilise their services in order to accomplish their goals with ease and minimal strain.

Christian D. Borchert

Blue Elephants Solutions Pte. Ltd.

Christian Borchert a futuristic leader with a past

Christian Borchert is a true visionary, a leader who has built his success out of nothing. His entire life taught him valuable leadership lessons about perseverance, determination, and the importance of a great team. Despite facing many challenges and obstacles, he never gave up on his values and dreams.

With a great team, you can overcome many challenges.

Growing up with a handicapped twin brother, Christian saw early on that life is not always fair. It does not treat everyone equally and randomly throughs challenges and hurdles at people. But he also saw how much his loving Parents Brigitte and Friedhelm were supporting his handicapped brother. and that with a great team, you can overcome many hurdles.

Leadership Lessons to learn from this are that overcoming challenges requires not just individual effort, but also the support of those around us and that working together through these challenges can really form a very strong team and help to develop resilience and strength.

Provide opportunities to people for them to outgrow your expectations.

His school life was also no easy and straightforward journey. After primary school, he had a recommendation to go to "Hauptschule", the school for the least gifted kids. His parents believed in his abilities and motivated him to go at least to the "Realschule" which is the school for middle-gifted children in Germany. It was a no easy for him but he finished this school in 1995. He then got the opportunity through his aunt Dorothea to go for one year to the United States as an exchange student where he not only learned English but foremost to live an independent life and take over responsibility for his life. After two more years in a kind of community college, he was able to advance to university which he finished successfully and was even able to add an executive MBA later on in his life.

Leadership lessons to learn from this are, that if you believe in people and support them by providing opportunities, they can outgrow the highest expectations. Also, you should always believe in yourself and your abilities, even when others do not. Don't let setbacks discourage you; use them as motivation to work harder and strive for success and embrace them as opportunities for personal growth, even if they are challenging.

Put the success of your customers first, and your customers will ensure you successful.

Christian started his professional career in a small consultancy company, mainly working on CRM Projects for BMW. His boss Peter, who was also the owner of the company thought him to be humble and serve customers as well as always look for new methods and technologies to solve tasks. Christian adopted to this and put customers first, serving and working hard for their projects and success, not focusing on his own development

but the success of and for the customer. By working in this way, he was quickly recognised by the customers, assigned more projects and a team and was even offered the role of CEO for the company after just 4 years of work experience. After gaining deeper insights into the company, there were a few things that were not congruent with Christian's values, and he remembered one promise he has given himself during university "Only advance your career and only do things that are in alignment with your values, so that you can every morning wake up with a clean heart and be proud of the person you see in the morning in the mirror.

Leadership lessons to learn from this are, that you should always put customers first and serve them well. Focus on the success of the customer, not just personal development, this will come completely by itself. But no matter how much you love what you are doing, always maintain integrity and alignment with your values and be ready to walk away from it anytime.

Be willing to take risks and push boundaries, even if they have been tried before and failed

Christian started to work for a Multi-National Healthcare Company. After a few months in the job, he recommended his team leader to measure customer profitability. The answer by his well-experienced leader was that that is not possible and has been tried many times. A few months later Christian was send to represent the team in a small not well known. At the end of the meeting Christian was assigned as the global project lead for what turned out to be one of the biggest projects for the company and to measure customer profitability worldwide and realign sales and service activities based on this new customer classifications.

Leadership lessons to learn from this are, to Always be open to new ideas, even if they have been tried before and failed. Be willing to take on new challenges and seize opportunities when they arise.

Leadership requires the ability and willingness to hear and act upon feedback

Christian was quickly promoted and took over multiple leadership roles for the company in Asia. Due to reorganisations and IPO the atmosphere in the company changed quickly. Many colleagues were unhappy but too afraid to speak up. Christian addressed this topic with his leadership team as well as the HR department. The answer he received: “This must be your personal impression as nobody has ever mentioned this to me so far” meant that either the leadership team was not able or not willing to see the truth and take feedback seriously. Employees were thankful that someone was addressing their fears, but since nothing changed, they silently quit the company worked in an environment of fear and just did the bare minimum and tried to be in cover.

Leadership lessons to learn from this are, that you should always encourage feedback take it very seriously, often it is just the tip of the iceberg. This is true for feedback from employees but also customers. Once you do not get any feedback anymore there is something seriously wrong.

Implement and apply your lessons learned from

Taking this as an opportunity Christian decided to start his own company and solve some of the challenges and problems, he experienced during his career and life. His first company Blue Elephants Solutions Pte. Ltd. was founded in the middle of the pandemic in 2020. Blue Elephants Solutions offers gamified mobile learning solutions based on the principle of spaced repetition to make learning more sustainable and transform knowledge and skills into successful habits that lead to actions and true impact in the organization. In the same year he founded Office Analytica, a company focusing on increasing office productivity. The first product is an outlook plugin that uses AI to automatically write and reply to emails and automate many other processes. Besides this two B2B focused companies he also started two B2C focused companies. CLUP.life is building a social Network for community clubs and associations and a first product called CLUP.chat enables users to synchronize group chats between WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, so that every member of the group can just their preferred messenger. The other company is called homesom GmbH and is a central platform in which users are informed and guided to a healthier home, reducing toxins in the air and water and improving other factors like thermal comfort and lighting which both can have a big mental health effect. In addition, he mentors and invests into social startups like PayMasta which are helping African hard-working families to gain access to their salary already throughout and not only at the month. All companies managed to develop their first products in the last 1-2 years since they have been founded and are currently starting to gain traction.

There

is no futuristic leader without a past

In all his companies he applies the leadership lessons learned from the past. There is now future without the past. To be a futuristic leader, you need to look back at your life and the lessons you have learned.