N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. Organizations that cultivate environments where everyone feels valued and heard are better positioned to foster innovation, boost employee engagement, and inspire loyalty.

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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? via @DDIworld.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article, written by Oliver Alexy and Markus Reitzig, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2012), and published by McKinsey & Company.

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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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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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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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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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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Managers, peers, work friends, mentors, frenemies, annoying people, romantic interests, your boss's boss, and so on. 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.

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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. Diversity is the bedrock of innovation. . Click on the diagram to see the full McKinsey Report: Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration. It doesn’t matter what your role is. Networks are messy.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A vast majority of executives, more than 80% according to sources, consider innovation to be paramount for the future success of their organization. A McKinsey study, for example, puts the number of executives who are satisfied with their innovation performance at 6%. Yet, very few of them are succeeding in it.

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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%. Transforming Decision Authority Sustainable leadership practices require a foundational understanding that strategic disagreement drives innovation.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they explain how and why organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Olivier Leclerc and Mihnea Moldoveanu explain how and why tricky problems must be shaped before they can be solved. To start that process, and stimulate novel thinking, leaders should look through multiple lenses.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 22, 2024

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. These statistics underscore the critical need for innovative talent development strategies to successfully navigate the ever-evolving landscape of work.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. Therefore, it’s critical to hire an experienced CTO.

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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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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In 1983, McKinsey consultant Julien Phillips published a paper in the journal, Human Resource Management, that described an ‘adoption penalty’ for firms that didn’t adapt to changes in the marketplace quickly enough. His ideas became McKinsey’s first change management model … Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Innovation doesn’t come from a sprint or a hackathon--it’s a result of maximizing ideaflow. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

” This ROI comes from many places, including increasing employee productivity, positive outcomes on employee management, talent management, and retention in an organization because executives who work with coaches are better equipped to lead their teams more effectively. There are many benefits when executives lead with empathy.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 24, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1983, McKinsey consultant Julien Phillips published a paper in the journal Human Resource Management that described an “adoption penalty” for firms that didn’t adapt to changes in the marketplace quickly enough. His ideas became McKinsey’s first change management model that it sold to clients.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh.

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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. By contrast, McKinsey & Company is an organization that demonstrates the benefits of developing leaders who stand out. —Vince Lombardi.

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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. Here are a selection of tweets from July 2015 that you might have missed: At the Intersection of Must And Want We Find Ourselves by @LollyDaskal.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I’ve had a couple of interesting conversations recently focused on the strategic view of innovation using the 3 Horizons framework originally proposed by McKinsey, and the assessment of risk and return from innovation.

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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. Supply chain management? Prioritize Data Management: AI thrives on data. As an executive, ensuring your business has a robust data management strategy is paramount. Is it customer service? Product recommendations?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In fact, McKinsey found that fewer than a third of organizational. Futuristic advancements like artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing are no longer pie-in-the-sky propositions, but mission critical initiatives that leaders are racing to implement within their organizations. Unfortunately, most of these initiatives fail.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 1, 2023

A study conducted by the University of Texas found that diversity in a team can lead to more creative and innovative ideas. By being a great teammate and valuing the perspectives of others, you can contribute to a more creative and innovative team environment. Luckily, I have colected some very interesting statistics for you!

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The recent explosion of HR technology has driven a major boom in innovative HR solutions. Employee lifecycle management, which defines the major HR function, is somewhat becoming less complicated; HR trends in 2019 suggest the industry is poised to rip even more benefits from the digital progression.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Talking about failure They argue that when we talk about failure, we tend to try and do a few things, including cleansing ourselves of the pain associated with the failure; managing the impression others have of us after the failure; and only then, sharing any learnings we may have from the experience.

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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

APRIL 28, 2013

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

McKinsey predicts that by 2030, over 25 million jobs in the United States will be automated. Being able to manage one’s emotions; generate positive emotions; and be highly sensitive to the emotional state of others will be important human skills. jobs including professional jobs will be automated.

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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. Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H. Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag'

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2020

The state will undoubtedly play a major role in this process, so a new paper from McKinsey is interesting as it outlines some of the ways in which governments can respond to the changes unfolding in the workplace. framework that governments can use to develop a road map to a win–win transition, ” McKinsey say. . Positive change.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 13, 2012

In the winning entries in a contest co-sponsored McKinsey & Company with Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and Harvard Business Review, the authors of seven articles reveal executive thinking on the importance of engaging employees in an open and realistic way.

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