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Leadership lessons

Lead on Purpose

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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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. With creativity’s ties to innovation and the global economy experiencing a significant growth mode, this personal ability was transferable across a range of organizational needs. The learning landscape is ripe for innovation.

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The 6 Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice

Harvard Business Review

Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. When I later became head of McKinsey Asia, he helped me see that I had to hire a solid COO to work with me—which substantially increased my leadership effectiveness in that bigger role.”

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Morning Advantage: The People-Profit Connection

Harvard Business Review

To begin answering that question, a trio of British researchers reporting in the European Business Review , compared the performance of 48 British employee-owned firms to 178 comparable traditionally structured businesses in good times (2004-2007) and (very) bad (2008-2009). BONUS BITS: Innovation and Its Discontents. Tech Crunch).

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. of all U.S.

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Whose Capitalism is it Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." Share your story or idea by entering the HBR/McKinsey Long-Term Capitalism Challenge.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

For example, Scott Blackburn, an Army veteran and former McKinsey & Company partner was paired with Chief of Staff Robert Snyder, who joined VA in 2009 after a 26-year career in the Army, to lead the transformation and reorganization initiative.