CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Getting Honest Feedback From Your Coach It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. This is why hire an executive coach!

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. It takes considerable effort to recognize when someone is operating from a different mental model than yours. It’s no wonder leaders get stuck in their mental models and can’t make progress.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. But whether we're talking about Romney or not, it's important to question whether consulting is good preparation for leadership.

Consultative 15

Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. A common mistake I’ve seen executives make in new professional or leadership situations is assuming they know what their top goals should be and how best to communicate with their new manager and leadership team.

Learning Curve 14

Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But, according to McKinsey research , only 16% of merger reorgs fully deliver their objectives in the planned time, 41% take longer than expected, and in 10% of cases, the reorg actually harms the newly-formed organization. This helped inform initial design discussions and narrow down the choices open to the new leadership team.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

A 2014 McKinsey & Co. Drucker urged executives to push decision-making and accountability all the way down through the organization as early as 1954, when he introduced the concept of Management by Objectives. Knowledge management Leadership Managing people' And these folks don’t necessarily have a clue.

Drucker 14

Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Rogers 14

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Measurable. Achievable.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. Could the organization turn itself around?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); And it’s not just your company.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8