Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Reaching a tipping point in leadership development via @McKinsey. Summit 2019 Videos - Andreessen Horowitz a16z Summit is an annual, invite-only event bringing together thinkers, builders, and innovators to explore and examine the future of #tech. Bam Adebayo is the fiercest, best NBA player you don't know. by @WScottCochrane.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

6 pieces of wisdom to help young leaders thrive in uncertain times By Kayvan Kian via @McKinsey. Leadership at Scale the @McKinsey Way #LeadershipAtScale Before you begin your next leadership development program, read this. Why Most Corporate Innovation Programs Fail (And How To Make Them Succeed) via @Digitaltonto Greg Satell.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” And technology? Africa is the next growth market. Turnover is high.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For example, a report by McKinsey & Company found that companies with diverse executive boards outperform their peers in profitability, generating approximately 10% higher return on equity. Strengthened Innovation: Diverse teams are more likely to generate innovative solutions.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev has devoted two decades to studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making and the reasons behind the successes and failures of corporate innovations. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Moreover, McKinsey’s latest research indicates that leaders who prioritize others’ approval over decisive action decrease team productivity by 34%. Leaders must develop sophisticated frameworks for distinguishing between valuable collaborative input and detrimental approval-seeking behaviors.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 1, 2025

A McKinsey study found that companies led by forward-thinking executives are 2.8 If you keep dismissing new ideas, resisting innovation, and relying on outdated methods, youre not leadingyoure blocking progress. Stop dismissing innovation as a distraction. Innovation requires risk-taking, but smart leaders take calculated risks.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2018

Learning About Innovation from Mr. Edison by from @wallybock via @leadchangegroup. Personal Development: A Learning Journey is Its Own Reward from @wallybock. Englishmen Can’t Shoot Straight: Lessons in Innovation by @wallybock. Why Innovation Can Be Taught by @adigaskell. Leading with inner agility via @McKinsey.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. That’s because while business coaching experience might help leaders develop the skills they need for their job, executive coaching goes far beyond this and doesn’t actually touch the technical skills a leader might need for their role.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Through involvement, people develop deeper understanding of the issues and goals and become more committed to implementing decisions. Diversity is the bedrock of innovation. . Click on the diagram to see the full McKinsey Report: Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration. You can’t hide your morals behind closed doors.

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QAspire

JUNE 3, 2024

Under Nadella’s leadership, Microsoft transformed into a dynamic and forward-thinking organization resulting in growth and innovation. Nadella’s story underlines what research from McKinsey & Co. Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform was accomplished through a rigorous cross-functional collaboration.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Which qualities would you say are most necessary for people to develop if they wish to become key leaders in their organization ? Anyone with the motivation to lead can develop core leadership qualities. By contrast, McKinsey & Company is an organization that demonstrates the benefits of developing leaders who stand out.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In a recent article “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company” McKinsey and Co, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic has added to the pressure to change that has been growing for many years, … Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2022

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack According to McKinsey & Co, in a recent article The new roles of leaders in 21st-century organizations they say that the focus of leaders, in traditional organisations, is to maximize value for shareholders. To do this effectively, … Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2015

Disrupting beliefs : A new approach to business-model innovation from @McKQuarterly. Changing change management via @McKinsey The power of digital to drive change. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Talent Hotbed by @PaulJSohn.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A report by McKinsey Global Institute estimates that AI could add $13 trillion to the global economy by 2030. It covers topics such as the different types of AI, the costs and benefits of AI adoption, and how to develop and implement an AI strategy. For executives, AI isn't just about technology; it's about transformation.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 7, 2024

Deloitte’s 2020 Global Human Capital Trends report found that 53% of respondents consider skill development to be very important. Investing in training and development helps teams stay agile and competitive. Fostering Diversity and Inclusion: A diverse team brings a wealth of perspectives that can lead to innovative solutions.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Leaders will need to develop new literacies in new ways for a new future. This is a future that will be ripe for innovation of all kinds—for good and for evil. Leaders will need to combine the practices of foresight, insight, and action. Even thousands of hours of practice in the present won’t be enough for this future world.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. Let’s be honest. About Mark.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2020

The developments made in a wide range of technologies have caused considerable consternation about just what the future of work will be. framework that governments can use to develop a road map to a win–win transition, ” McKinsey say. . Positive change. Growing inequality.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. An explanation comes in the form of a paper from Northwestern’s Mark Buchanan, in which he highlights what is known as recombinative innovation. Knowledge transfer.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

McKinsey Insights ’ Pankaj Ghemawat references a survey of senior executives where 76% of them feel they need to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7% of feel they are doing so effectively. Innovation Leadership measure metrics' How exactly – and based on what specific parameters – is your team improving?

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. 2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 18, 2009 at 6:40 am said: Thanks for the mention!

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A study encompassing over 600,000 individuals across various professions revealed that top performers are up to 800% more productive in complex jobs like software development and management. Professional Growth and Development : Continuous Learning: Organizations that excel operationally often prioritize continuous learning and development.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Business development. Software and app developers. Business development is the only job description based on power skills. The learning landscape is ripe for innovation. Process automation professionals.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 29, 2012

Here is the executive summary of a recent report featured online by The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company. MGI was established in 1990 to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving global economy.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. As we begin to see some kind of normality returning to life, there has been an understandable desire to examine how we can better prepare ourselves for the future. “It

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 15, 2019

In their latest book, Leadership at Scale , McKinsey consultants Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie and Nicolai Chen Nielsen modestly refer to the firm as the premier leadership factory in the world. The authors believe that these four principles form the basis of all leadership development efforts at McKinsey.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

Chris spearheads Adobe Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships. His new book Superhuman Innovation showcases how AI will supercharge the workforce, the world of work, and can be harnessed to deliver powerful change. McKinsey: AI is advancing 10 times faster and at 300 times the scale of the Industrial Revolution. .

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2020

While innovation will be dominated by investment scaled up globally, therapy will be individualized – n = 1, thanks to solutions like AI & Block-chain. You worked in many global roles – we see many developing countries leap-frogging their development path. Let’s talk about brand longevity (McKinsey statistic).

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