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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

The battle of the world against the pandemic shook up the workplace, requiring swift accommodation and responses to skills gaps and skill shifts. Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. The Skills Dilemma. And what skills will matter to you and your organization in the future? . “If

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20 Articles to Help Leaders Navigate the COVID 19 Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

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. (Forbes) 2. 6 Ways You Can Show True Leadership During a Crisis (Inc.)

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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” Reflection that is not translated into new and consistent action is a recipe for failure if the goal is helping people to learn a new skill.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Have you given them all the training, skills, and capabilities they will need to succeed in that role? He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. Carry that mindset over to your team. If not, you need to get cracking.

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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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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

For example, when consultants at McKinsey surveyed 1,546 executives in 2009, 38% of respondents said “the transformation was ‘completely’ or ‘mostly’ successful at improving performance, compared with 30 percent similarly satisfied that it improved their organization’s health.”

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

Harvard Business Review

Multinationals tend to be large, capital-intensive, skill-intensive, research-intensive, and high-productivity — all features that contribute to high-wage jobs and rising living standards. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute.