Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Welcome to the April 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Crisis Leadership. Development. Communication.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2023 curated just for you. Martin, A Game of Thrones * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. Absolutely!

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Books Leadership McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 366

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2024 curated just for you. High Road Leadership : Bringing People Together in a World That Divides by John C. Maxwell The world’s most influential leadership expert, John C. It’s the leadership superpower of our times.

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Venture Capitalist Books Leadership CEO 334

Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. Involve More People.

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McKinsey Crisis Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 365

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As we approach 2025, inclusive leadership has transformed from a commendable goal into a strategic necessity for organizations aiming to thrive in a rapidly evolving global market. The Evolving Landscape of Inclusive Leadership The connection between inclusive leadership and enhanced business performance is more evident than ever.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

Consequently, current Gallup data shows that 82% of companies select the wrong person for management positions, while McKinsey reports that poor leadership costs organizations $15,000 per employee annually in lost productivity. Power Poisons Progress Many new leaders believe asserting authority equals strong leadership.

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Management Delegation McKinsey Micromanagement 141

Lead from Within

JULY 3, 2024

Creating a leadership development plan is a critical step in forging a successful career path. A McKinsey study reveals that 70% of employees who received effective leadership training improved their job performance. Assess Your Current Leadership Skills: Begin with self-assessment.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to founding Co-Creation Partners, he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company, most recently as a leader in their Organization Practice in North America. Before McKinsey, he worked in marketing for Pepsi Cola International and Procter & Gamble in Europe, the Middle East, and India.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

5 Key Insights To Help You On The Way To Authentic Leadership by @lizkislik. How to Alleviate Leadership Anxiety With the Power of Perspective by @WScottCochrane. Effective Leadership Training: The One Question You Need to Ask via @DDIworld. Effective Leadership Training: The One Question You Need to Ask via @DDIworld.

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Emotional Intelligence McKinsey Crisis Leadership Styles 382

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Companies spend considerable amount of time and money on developing leaders through training programs and workshops. My experience so far suggests that these time-bound and finite interventions fail over a long run in developing leadership capabilities.

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Training Development McKinsey Long-term 171

Lead from Within

APRIL 22, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve witnessed the profound impact of talent development in an increasingly uncertain world. According to McKinsey’s study, it highlights the concerns of executives, with a staggering 87% believing that their organizations will face disruption due to digital trends.

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Development Storytelling Uncertainty Human Capital 192

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Do you know the difference?

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” ” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2020 that you don't want to miss: People Leadership: 10 Things to Do Now to Lead Better Tomorrow by @KateNasser. Purpose-Driven Leadership Is Good For Business. 5 Worn-Out Phrases That Can Hurt Your Leadership by @WScottCochrane. Leadership: The Hardest Thing from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2023 curated just for you. The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

6 Ways to Know if Your Leadership Might be the Lid to Growth by @DanReiland Inflicting Help by @edbatista What are the various ways we can, with the best of intentions, inflict help? See more on Twitter. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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LDRLB

MARCH 20, 2014

Lindsey helps companies and their people get wildly better remarkably quickly through experiential learning, most recently in Learning and Development roles at McKinsey & Co., Their research and insights draw interesting parallels into the world of leadership development. [ This is a guest post from Lindsey Caplan.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Learning-by-Doing 133

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

The next normal arrives: Trends that will define 2021—and beyond via @McKinsey. 3 Common Leadership Myths About Burnout by @suzimcalpine If we can begin to dispel some of the myths that circle #burnout, we’ll be far more effective in tackling it in our #workplaces. Leadership Secret: Be "Other-Centered" by @DebbieLaskeyMBA.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Doing Leadership. Mike Henry Sr: Un-Acts of Leadership. From @CharlesSpecht: A list of top 50 leaders on leadership. Mike Henry Sr: 8 Reasons Why Pride Is The Core Of Leadership Failure. Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn. by @LollyDaskal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

Key Leadership Transitions Great Leaders Champion by @KateNasser. Boost Your Leadership with the Power of Perspective by @WScottCochrane If you can fix it with money, that is not a big problem. Leadership and Transference by @edbatista. How to Increase Your Leadership By Weighing What Matter s by @WScottCochrane.

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McKinsey Storytelling Conference Learning-by-Doing 257

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. These sectors of work, like the mining, textile, or glassmaking industries, thrived with their own supply chains, expertise, and proprietary distribution. And this is basically how we think of business today. But that is changing.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Automotive McKinsey 380

Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Which qualities would you say are most necessary for people to develop if they wish to become key leaders in their organization ?

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Quality Leadership McKinsey Training 166

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains. According to LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report, 94% of employees would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development. Continual improvement is essential for staying competitive.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. The impact of women’s presence in boardrooms and leadership positions is difficult to measure accurately as it requires considerable time to determine the real outcomes.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The tools include: SWOT analysis, Porter's 5 forces of competition, McKinsey's 7-S framework, BCG’s product portfolio matrix, Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean, Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent, Prahalad's bottom of the pyramid and twenty-one more. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal (..)

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2011

I like to look below the hood of these rankings, to see if there's anything new to learn when it comes to leadership development. The companies that excel in leadership development do it better than the rest because they believe in it and take it seriously. McKinsey and Company. McKinsey and Company.

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Globalization Company McKinsey Leadership Development 229

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%. These physiological responses signal critical leadership adjustments. Successful leadership demands the courage to make necessary decisions, even when facing resistance.

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Restructuring McKinsey Stress Execution 85

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership. Mike Henry Sr: Humility : The 5th Sense of Character-based Leadership. The One Leadership Responsibility You Must Accept by @Starbucker. Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Ford’s Alan Mulally | McKinsey & Company. link] by @tshnall.

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Festinger Servant Leader McKinsey Self-aware 274

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Recent studies from Gallup reveal a startling statistic: 70% of employee engagement and motivation is directly influenced by leadership behavior. As an executive leadership coach partnering with Fortune 500 companies for over a decade, I’ve witnessed firsthand the exodus of exceptional talent.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 14, 2012

It's not really about the products made, the technology developed or the financial instruments that are bought and sold. That means that leadership is a means to an end --the mission it serves is the end. No matter what technical competencies are required, the people part of leadership is the singular, foundational principle.

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Leadership Drucker McKinsey Leadership Styles 164

Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2024

Leadership development training days aren’t optional; They are essential for great teams. Engaging and effective leadership development days are a critical necessity for sustaining your organizational success and growing your people. However, merely conducting a training day is not enough.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The following post is a preview excerpt from the Introduction of the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen. Leaders will need to develop new literacies in new ways for a new future. In this book, I will explore the external future forces most likely to disrupt leaders and leadership.

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Leadership Open-book McKinsey Workshop 190

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2019 that you don't want to miss: 5 Characteristics of a Successful Leadership Development Strategy via @CCLdotORG. The mindsets and practices of excellent CEOs via @McKinsey. Developing the Mindset and Skill Set of a Servant Leader by @kenblanchard via @BKpub.

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Polanyi Servant Leader McKinsey Entrepreneur 41

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 16, 2015

McKinsey & Company has just announced the ten articles that were most popular with mckinsey.com readers in 2014. Why leadership-development programs fail Sidestepping four common mistakes can help companies develop stronger and more capable leaders, save time and money, and boost morale.

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