First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Lowell Bryan, John Horn, and Sven Smit, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2011

Here is an article co-authored by Vikram Malhotra and James Manyika for The McKinsey Quarterly website (March 2011), published by McKinsey & Company.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Charles Roxburgh, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Kevin P. Coyne, featured by The McKinsey Quarterly website (March 2011). The magazine is published by McKinsey & Company. Coyne and Shawn T.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 5, 2011

Here is a terrific article written by John Horn for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, and featured online (March 2011).

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

A few weeks ago, Fortune Magazine released it’s 2011 list of the 25 Top Companies for Leaders. A significant number of the companies are international (including McKinsey, which insists it doesn’t have a headquarters). Click on the graphic to read the entire article.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. In the classic HBR article “ What Makes a Leader? McKinsey & Company. Jossey-Bass; 2011:17. 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Michiel Kruyt, Judy Malan, and Rachel Tuffield and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online (February 2011).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2011).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Walter Kiechel for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Like Satan in the book of Job, [.].

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

A few weeks ago, Fortune Magazine released it’s 2011 list of the 25 Top Companies for Leaders. A significant number of the companies are international (including McKinsey, which insists it doesn’t have a headquarters). Click on the graphic to read the entire article. Leadership leadership development'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

During the conversation that follows, conducted in January 2011 and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online, former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin and three other leaders share their approaches to testing strategy. To read the complete article, please click here. [.]

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. A columnist since 2008, Anand first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing two articles on money and politics under the tutelage of Jill Abramson.

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. A columnist since 2008, Anand first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing two articles on money and politics under the tutelage of Jill Abramson.

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McKinsey Letter Politics Education 78

Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. ” Another oft-quoted source is Beer and Nohria’s 2000 HBR article, Cracking the Code of Change , in which they state, with no reference or evidence whatsoever, “The brutal fact is that about 70% of all change initiatives fail.”

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

Anand’s first book, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011), about returning to the India his parents left is a worthwhile read, too. A columnist since 2008, Anand first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing two articles on money and politics under the tutelage of Jill Abramson.

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McKinsey Letter Politics Education 60

Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. Copyright (c) 2011. Richard Dobbs is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm’s business and economics research arm. About the Authors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Most experts, for example, state that 70% of change efforts fail, but a 2011 study in the Journal of Change Management , led by the University of Brighton researcher Mark Hughes found that there is no empirical evidence to support this statistic. The insidious myth that change initiatives usually fail is disturbingly widespread.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

For example, people aged over 50 bought nearly two-thirds of the new cars sold in the United States in 2011. McKinsey Glog research finds that China is expected to spend 12.5% By 2011, this share was more than 45%. There are surprises. A decade ago, those aged 55 and older accounted for less than one-third of all U.S.

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Marketing McKinsey Globalization Transportation 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Liz Brenner said: "Women Up" & Win in Business- Great article by @barrylibert [link] #womenleaders @leadership #wisdomforwomen #womeninbusiness [.]

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. New research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute makes it clear that Africa faces real economic headwinds including declining investment and savings, and rising government indebtedness.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Meanwhile, according to a recent article in The Financial Times , where a minimum threshold was adopted, there has been a marked improvement in gender balance. France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In a recent article published in EducationNext, "Creating a Corps of Change Agents," Jennie Weiner, Wendy Robison, Rick Hess and I analyzed the career histories of founders and top management team members of organizations identified as "entrepreneurial" in education and found that TFA is overly represented in the career histories of both groups.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 This strategy reflects the " create, operate, trade " principle of Richard Foster, the former McKinsey executive who (full disclosure) is now lead board member at Innosight. Shareholder returns matched profits exactly, at a compound 14%. billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

According to a McKinsey & Company study India’s biggest barriers to internet adoption are primarily in the areas of internet access capabilities and awareness of the internet itself. Only 19.2%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Email in particular is a major contributor to employees’ perceptions of feeling stressed or overwhelmed, according to a 2011 study. Combine that with a 2012 McKinsey report that found employees spend approximately 28% of their time in the office responding to, reading, or composing emails.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We find that every percentage in growth of digital uptake over the period 2008-2011 leads to a positive growth rate of gender digital inclusion over the period 2011-15 by about 2.3%. We see this as further evidence that digital uptake contributes to wider benefits across the economy and in narrowing the gender gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. A study by McKinsey & Company found that organizations ranked in the top quartile of racial diversity are 35% more likely to earn above-average financial returns. Today, minorities make up 37% of the United States population and will climb to 57% by 2060.

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Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

SAP’s co-CEO Jim Hagemann noted in 2011 that the R&D group in Israel has “turned into a sort of front line where new ideas are tested out and turned into technology, and it is succeeding well.” A 2011 McKinsey study showed that smaller and younger firms are wary of global R&D plays.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To answer these tough questions, we can turn to two of the world's best number crunchers, McKinsey and PwC (full disclosure: I have a consulting partnership arrangement with PwC US). For perspective, in 2011 carbon intensity improved just 0.8%. 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011. How fast do we have to change?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Consider some sobering analysis from McKinsey based on an analysis of over 750 occupations.

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Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9