Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2018

A McKinsey Global Institute report on future of the workforce shows that between 75 million and 375 million people globally will have to change their occupation and acquire new skills by the year 2030. These changes are not just causing disruption to businesses, but are also becoming a big problem for the managers to face.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 25, 2024

McKinsey research indicates that 85% of the skills considered crucial for leadership success in the future don’t yet exist in most executive portfolios. Meanwhile, organizations investing in future-focused leadership development report 34% higher adaptability to market changes. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

A recent report by McKinsey’s Leadership Index demonstrates organizations with self-aware leaders generate 41% higher shareholder returns. Through decades of intensive executive leadership coaching partnerships, I’ve guided thousands of leaders to confront their perception gaps and transform their effectiveness.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Four Lessons A Baseball Manager Could Teach Your Team from @JohnBaldoni. How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results via @McKinsey Five capabilities are at the heart of centered leadership. See more on Twitter. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Creativity Can’t. by Ernie Schenck @joguzucoryqa via @CommArts Feel Like Running Away? Others are building it. Do you know the difference?

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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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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. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared A Manager’s Guide to Navigating High-Stress Times.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. Even if each step in that journey is fulfilled or managed by a different company, the ecosystem integrates them into a single platform, so that from the customer’s perspective, it’s all one experience, one journey. But that is changing.

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Reaching a tipping point in leadership development via @McKinsey. 15 Things Leaders Can Manage (and One They Can't) by @JesseLynStoner. See more on Twitter. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Bam Adebayo is the fiercest, best NBA player you don't know.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The Journey of Leadership : How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink and Ramesh Srinivasan When the pressure is on, many of the world’s top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. And I mean that last "well" in both senses.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

You couldn't figure out what made them tick, and you know you were underwhelming as a manager and leader for them. Martin, A Game of Thrones * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. They do all the things that wind you up, put you off and drive you nuts. Of course, you have.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry. Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers by @petefriedes. When Trouble Hits —8 Ways to Develop Resilience, Options and “Falling Up” by @pdiscoveryuk.

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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. Understanding where you currently stand is crucial for setting realistic and impactful development goals.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

There is no section marked “managing your professional decline.”. 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. Want To Project Strength?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management. Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Managers, peers, work friends, mentors, frenemies, annoying people, romantic interests, your boss's boss, and so on. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey. We probably spend more hours with our coworkers than with anyone else.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A McKinsey & Company report titled “Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters” (2020) found that “Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25 percent more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It’s very easy to have what CEO Seah Chin Siong of the Singapore Institute of Management calls “goal erosion,” defining it as “Doing what is easy, going through the motions, but not doing the hard things the ultimate mission requires.” She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India.

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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. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. The driving force behind digital transformations is adopting and implementing digital technologies to processes, products, and assets to improve efficiency, enhance customer value, manage risk, and uncover new monetization opportunities.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

While you might hear these statements from any manager, they all have one thing in common: the lack of specificity. Organizations need good managers and exceptional leaders (at all levels of your business). Test your management strategies. How are you managing your team? That’s why most managers don’t risk doing it.

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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. Sometimes I'll even call the person in charge of talent management. The companies that excel in leadership development do it better than the rest because they believe in it and take it seriously.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership. Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Ford’s Alan Mulally | McKinsey & Company. Smoothing the Creases : 5 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Workplace by Eunisse De Leon. Leading, When You Are Not The Leader by @toddbnielsen. link] by @tshnall.

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Festinger Servant Leader McKinsey Self-aware 274

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 11, 2024

More concerning, a McKinsey report shows that 75% of employees cite their immediate supervisor as the primary source of workplace stress, leading to unprecedented turnover rates in high-performing teams. More importantly, I’ve developed proven strategies to help leaders retain their best people.

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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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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

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. Middle manager." Through them all, he's managed to guide his team out the other side successfully.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Considering that most change efforts only succeed 30% of the time, Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger (both McKinsey partners) put forth a change model to increase the odds of success (upwards of 79% of the time) in Beyond Performance 2.0. How do we manage the journey? The framework revolves around five questions: Aspire.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2024

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. Everyone is given extensive skill development.

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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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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management. I F YOU’VE HAD to be on a plane in the last year or so, especially within the U.S.,

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. Through involvement, people develop deeper understanding of the issues and goals and become more committed to implementing decisions. It doesn’t matter what your role is. Networks are messy.

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