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. This strategic blindness erodes both business performance and team capability development.

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Management Delegation McKinsey Micromanagement 147

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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Skills Marketing Leadership Competitive Advantage 133

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. Subscribe via RSS , Connect via Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.

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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 196

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. Development. Communication. ” Connect with Ken on Twitter at @kenbyler.

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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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Leadership Development Career Planning Development 182

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

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. Four things you should avoid when delivering bad news by @suzimcalpine. by @KateNasser.

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Emotional Intelligence McKinsey Crisis Leadership Styles 382

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Others are building it. Do you know the difference?

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McKinsey Mentor Learning-by-Doing Creativity 333

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Reaching a tipping point in leadership development via @McKinsey. 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. Leadership: The Hardest Thing from @wallybock. by @LaRaeQuy via @SBLeaders.

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McKinsey Learning-by-Doing Video Advice 317

Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

See more on Twitter. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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McKinsey Uncertainty Creativity Class 370

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.

Learning Organization 259

Learning Organization Organization Innovation Six Sigma 259

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

The next normal arrives: Trends that will define 2021—and beyond via @McKinsey. See more on Twitter. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Here are a selection of tweets from March 2021 that you don't want to miss: The Power of Values in Uncertain Times via @StanfordGSB.

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McKinsey Brainstorming Long-term Trends 371

Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Martin, A Game of Thrones * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Merging mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioral therapy into a user-friendly model—the first non-academic book of its kind— The Choice Point grants us control of the decisions that define us.

Books 366

Books Leadership McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 366

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

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

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McKinsey Storytelling Conference Learning-by-Doing 257

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.

Leadership Development 149

Leadership Development Development Leadership McKinsey 149

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry. When Trouble Hits —8 Ways to Develop Resilience, Options and “Falling Up” by @pdiscoveryuk. McKinsey talks with 7 leaders and Michael Useem about the new fundamentals of leading in the 21st century. Good read from @wallybock: The instant you become a boss.

Mintzberg 282

Mintzberg Kotter Hamel McKinsey 282

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.

Books 423

Books Leadership Bureaucracy McKinsey 423

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

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 (..)

Strategy 284

Strategy Books Balanced Scorecard Mauborgne 284

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India. Learn more at positiveinfluence.life. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

Influence 433

Influence Positioning Self-aware CEO 433

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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McKinsey Article Morale Leadership Development 70

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 25, 2020

I believe McKinsey used “next normal” first. The challenge isn’t predicting the next normal. It’s creating it. I heard the term “next normal” when a friend texted me from a Board retreat. Leaders… Continue reading →

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McKinsey Power Stress Succession 231

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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Diversity Leadership Groupthink Execution 312

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024 * * * “Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.” — Jim Rohn * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Venture Capitalist Books Leadership CEO 334

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. Studies indicate that gender-balanced teams are more likely to develop creative strategies.

Diversity 243

Diversity Strategy Succession Benchmarking 243

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. General Mills, Inc.

Globalization 229

Globalization Company McKinsey Leadership Development 229

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. Develop programs to grow talent from within and make gender diversity a priority. I N THE WESTERN WORLD, we often do not have an accurate picture of Africa as a growing marketplace. Turnover is high.

How To 308

How To Long-term Short-term Business Model 308

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Ford’s Alan Mulally | McKinsey & Company. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. From @TalentCulture : Becoming A Leader Others Want To Follow. Be aware in 2014 by @TomAsacker. The One Leadership Responsibility You Must Accept by @Starbucker.

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Festinger Servant Leader McKinsey Self-aware 274

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

McKinsey alums Charles Conn and Rob McLean teach us how to be bulletproof problem solvers using a simple 7-steps approach. How do you disaggregate the issues and develop hypotheses to be explored? How do you develop a workplan and assign analytical tasks? Like leaders themselves, good problem solvers are made, not born.

Disaggregation 269

Disaggregation Analysis McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 269

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.

Polanyi 41

Polanyi Servant Leader McKinsey Entrepreneur 41

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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McKinsey Micromanagement Bottom-up Leadership Styles 78

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.

Restructuring 85

Restructuring McKinsey Stress Execution 85

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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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 322

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. So, any change effort will be more successful when you focus on both performance and health.

Hamel 342

Hamel Objective Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 342

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2012

The most obvious answer is to change the way you develop change leaders if the process you now have isn’t working very well.

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McKinsey Development How To Article 80

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2024

“Too often company leaders view middle managers in a negative light as expendable employees who can slow down productivity and overall strategy,” explain the book’s authors and McKinsey partners Bill Schaninger , Bryan Hancock , and Emily Field. By contrast, not everyone is well-suited to be a middle manager.

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Middle Management Development Management McKinsey 121