Women on Business

JULY 18, 2012

A study from McKinsey & Co reveals some possible reasons why the careers of most business women stall at middle management. Vikram Malhotra, McKinsey’s chairman of the Americas, says, ‘Middle-management women get promoted on performance, while middle-management men get promoted on potential.’

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Middle Management McKinsey Management Committee 184

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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McKinsey Crisis Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 365

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Four Lessons A Baseball Manager Could Teach Your Team from @JohnBaldoni. How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results via @McKinsey Five capabilities are at the heart of centered leadership. How to Deal With That Missing X Factor in Your Leadership by @WaltRakowich. Why and How to Become a Helpful Boss from @wallybock.

Emotional Intelligence 382

Emotional Intelligence McKinsey Crisis Leadership Styles 382

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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McKinsey Mentor Learning-by-Doing Creativity 333

Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

You couldn't figure out what made them tick, and you know you were underwhelming as a manager and leader for them. 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. We all have.

Books 366

Books Leadership McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 366

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. The distinction between managing and leading emerges through mastery of specific capabilities. Traditional leadership capabilities are undergoing a profound transformation.

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Skills Marketing Leadership Competitive Advantage 133

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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Supply Chain Real Estate Automotive McKinsey 380

Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

A recent report by McKinsey’s Leadership Index demonstrates organizations with self-aware leaders generate 41% higher shareholder returns. Through decades of intensive executive leadership coaching partnerships, I’ve guided thousands of leaders to confront their perception gaps and transform their effectiveness.

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Leadership Styles Self-aware Leadership McKinsey 159

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.

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Books Leadership Bureaucracy McKinsey 423

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). How should we stay grounded as we avoid crises and manage our way through a maze of increasing expectations? By Linda Fisher Thornton It would be "easy [.]

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Ethics McKinsey Leadership Organization 236

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Reaching a tipping point in leadership development via @McKinsey. 15 Things Leaders Can Manage (and One They Can't) by @JesseLynStoner. Leadership: The Hardest Thing from @wallybock. Do you know how to boost your willpower? by @LaRaeQuy via @SBLeaders. 5 Easy Ways To Lead With Integrity by @paul_larue. What AI Still Can’t Do.

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McKinsey Learning-by-Doing Video Advice 317

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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McKinsey Storytelling Conference Learning-by-Doing 257

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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Efficiency McKinsey Hammer Content 246

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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Learning Organization Organization Innovation Six Sigma 259

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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Metrics Management Katz How To 190

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers by @petefriedes. McKinsey talks with 7 leaders and Michael Useem about the new fundamentals of leading in the 21st century. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn.

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Mintzberg Kotter Hamel McKinsey 282

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The results of another McKinsey Global Survey indicate that — according to Brad Brown, Johnson Sikes, and Paul Willmott — CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies step up efforts to build digital enterprises.

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McKinsey Company Survey Globalization 75

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."

Strategy 284

Strategy Books Balanced Scorecard Mauborgne 284

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

She started as a management consultant working for McKinsey & Co. During her time in McKinsey, she had her son and after coming back from maternity leave she was ready to quit due to the hours leaving her very little time to spend with her little boy. Christina Shi is the Chief Operating Officer at Nike, Inc.

Power 205

Power McKinsey Chief Operating Officer Career 205

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). Why you should put a price tag on everything.

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Benchmarking McKinsey Brainstorming Open-book 248

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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McKinsey Innovation Management Article 114

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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Long-term Short-term McKinsey CEO 220

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 3, 2012

For more than half a century, The McKinsey Quarterly has shaped and informed the top management agenda. According to the Quarterly‘s readers, these are the five best articles published in 2011.

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McKinsey Article Commitment Globalization 85

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Managers, peers, work friends, mentors, frenemies, annoying people, romantic interests, your boss's boss, and so on. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey. We probably spend more hours with our coworkers than with anyone else.

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Venture Capitalist Books Leadership CEO 334

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.

Influence 433

Influence Positioning Self-aware CEO 433

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 23, 2020

4 Leadership Skills for Crisis Management (Daniel Goleman, using your emotional intelligence) 4. Leadership in a crisis: Responding to the coronavirus outbreak and future challenges (McKinsey) 7. Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill (CFO) 9. Best Practices for Managing Virtual Teams and Meetings (CCL) 15.

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Crisis Article Crisis Management Goleman 217

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

10 Reasons why Managers are Clueless about Leadership by @greatleadership. Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Ford’s Alan Mulally | McKinsey & Company. Smoothing the Creases : 5 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Workplace by Eunisse De Leon. Leading, When You Are Not The Leader by @toddbnielsen. link] by @tshnall.

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Festinger Servant Leader McKinsey Self-aware 274

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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McKinsey Management Human Resources Consultative 98

Chart Your Course

JUNE 16, 2013

The pool of manager candidates ages 35 to 45 is inadequate to meet current needs. A 2012 McKinsey report found that fewer than half of U.S. via Win the Race for Talent – Talent Management magazine. Employee Engagement Human Resource Management Talent Management'

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Talent Management Magazine Management Gordon 140

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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How To Diversity Agility Operations 324

Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

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. Middle manager." Through them all, he's managed to guide his team out the other side successfully.

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Books Leadership Middle Management Chemicals 300

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Statistics have shown companies with more women in management score better on the nine dimensions of company excellence. ( Women Matter , McKinsey 2007). So how do we get more women in management in companies everywhere? Too often women do not ask for, or stand up for what they need or think.

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Diversity McKinsey Execution Team 202

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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CTO Short-term Shaw Agility 397

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Sometimes I'll even call the person in charge of talent management. Aditya Birla Management Corporation. McKinsey and Company. 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. Once again, the answer is no, not really. Here's the full list: 1.IBM.

Globalization 229

Globalization Company McKinsey Leadership Development 229

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? The framework revolves around five questions: Aspire.

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Hamel Objective Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 342

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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Management McKinsey Human Resources Consultative 98

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 17, 2012

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It was co-authored by Matthew Guthridge, Asmus B. Komm, and Emily Lawson.

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Talent Management McKinsey Management Article 97