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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

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.”. This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective.

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Key Qualities of a Vibrant Culture Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

According a leadership survey conducted by McKinsey , U.S. They have purpose, influence, ethics, and they continually look to safeguard the future of their organization. Become more self-aware. companies spend around $14 billion on leadership development. That’s the thing about leadership. Say thank you often.

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The Risks and Traps of Decision-Making

Skip Prichard

Drawing on real-life examples from Wall Street titans, sports icons, and even FBI investigators, Walsh’s book is a call to action for leaders to become more aware of their “deaf spots”—or judgment. In business, according to McKinsey, the average organization lifecycle is down from 61 years to 18 years.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

The global economy and the Internet have heightened our sense of interconnectedness and sharpened our awareness that when a business focuses only on enriching investors, it implies that managers view the interests of customers, employees, communities and the fate of the planet as little more than cost trade-offs in a quarter-by-quarter game.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. Praekelt identified previously unused messaging space on their network that could be used to send HIV awareness SMS texts.

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Servant Leadership Library

Modern Servant Leader

Jim Collins 2019 Other Business Balance Case for Servant Leadership The author argues that servant leadership is ethical, practical, and meaningful. BrenŽ Brown 2015 Other Application Define Your Destiny You simply cannot lead others if you donÕt even know your own self.

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Why NYU’s B-School Teaches Mindfulness

Harvard Business Review

“Because you’re from McKinsey and I want to work there,” he replied. We launched the Mindfulness in Business Initiative (MiB) precisely in order to help students like these leverage their desire for success toward saner, more sustainable, and ethical workplace practices through mindfulness. The audience laughed.