Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work via @McKinsey. 100 Percent of Managers Fail from @wallybock. 5 Easy-To-Spot Hallmarks of (Un)Ethical Leadership by Linda Fisher Thornton @leadingincontxt. The Top Trends in Tech via @McKinsey. The Craft Of Managing And Leading from @JohnBaldoni.

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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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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

for organizations and leaders to become frozen by the magnitude of the changes under way" (McKinsey & Co., Management Intuition For the Next 50 Years). Success in future leadership requires being nimble and adaptive, flexing with constant change, and being ready for anything. By Linda Fisher Thornton It would be "easy [.]

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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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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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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 28, 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 However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.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

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. The Transpersonal Touchstone Explored.

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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

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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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led.

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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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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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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I’ve recently had the opportunity to help design a brand-new open-enrollment Woman’s Leadership Development Program to be offered through the University of New Hampshire’s Executive Development Program. Here are 10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program: 1. Start with a solid research foundation.

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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

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. There is no section marked “managing your professional decline.”. via @ChiefExecGrp.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Doing Leadership. Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. 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. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Guest post from Fiona Murden : In 1998 I graduated from business school feeling I knew all there was to know about leadership. I began work as a management consultant and much of what I’d learnt was very quickly thrown out of the window. As a result, those critical aspects of good leadership become even more important.

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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. Joel Answers: Let’s start by demystifying what leadership actually means. To many, leadership is an elusive role.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 23, 2020

Focus On Trust: Successful Leadership In Times Of Crisis.(Forbes) 6 Ways You Can Show True Leadership During a Crisis (Inc.) 4 Leadership Skills for Crisis Management (Daniel Goleman, using your emotional intelligence) 4. Crisis leadership Guiding the organization through uncertainty and chaos (Deloitte) 5.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains. E-learning Platforms: Utilizing online courses and learning management systems (LMS) makes learning accessible and flexible. According to McKinsey, organizations with effective change communication are 3.5

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few weeks ago, I was in a conversation with a group of senior managers when one of them told a story that put what has come to be known as The Great Resignation in sharp relief. The exhaustion and burnout have an impact on everyone – executives, managers and team members alike. The McKinsey findings make the same point.

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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.

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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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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 29, 2014

Jeremy has decades of consulting and performance improvement experience in business and government, including McKinsey. The BIG blind spots in management thinking (and belief) around process and profit improvement. managers getting out of the office and into the field). The two critical leadership lessons in the book.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. CHRO for HSBC.

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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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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. Paula Kiger of Big Green Pen shared Overcome social distance with empathy in leadership.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 14, 2012

For Peter Drucker, leadership is about communicating with people , uniting them behind a shared mission and values, and mobilizing energies toward accomplishing the mission or purpose of an organization. That means that leadership is a means to an end --the mission it serves is the end. Leadership requires followership.

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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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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 27, 2013

In a recent interview with McKinsey & Company , Bill George —Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO—said the following: “ Anyone who’s willing to postpone the long-term strategies to make the short-term numbers is in route to going out of business. ”. You will learn things you would have missed had you not tried.

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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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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

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. This raises some pertinent questions. First, why do these programs fail?

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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. Assess Your Current Leadership Skills: Begin with self-assessment.

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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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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? Advance : Leadership placement. Where do we want to go?

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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. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey.

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