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

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 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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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. To check out all the free resources and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * As the US economy begins to recover, addressing some of the myths on [.].

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

In a recent McKinsey quarterly survey of nearly 800 top executives: Only 45 percent of the respondents said they were satisfied with their strategic-planning process. THE "BEST OF STRATEGIC PLANNING" - FROM THE SIX DISCIPLINES BLOG. What will you do - differently? The Fundamentals. Tis The Season for Strategic Planning.

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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

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

AUGUST 1, 2011

Once again, McKinsey & Company’s Quarterly has made available an exceptionally valuable program to the general public: Experts discuss McKinsey’s research on “jobless recoveries” and ways to solve the longer-term US employment crisis (August 2011).

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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. McKinsey & Company. Jossey-Bass; 2011:17. 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S. 2 Stein S, Book H. 3 Goleman D. What makes a leader? 4 Sanchez P.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

In 2011, Mark Hughes of the University of Brighton wrote about his research into the source of the statistic in The Journal of Change Management: Do 70 per cent of all organizational change initiatives really fail? A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful. million results. A few have been utter failures.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Below are the results for 2011. Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.]. Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 18, 2011

Coyne HarperBusiness/HaroerCollins (2011) How to come up with new and better ideas all day, every day, and even on demand? Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas Kevin P. Coyne and Shawn T.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Two recent blogs published by HBR.org are representative and, I believe, wrong. Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Walter Frick, an HBR editor, contrasts the enthusiasm of executives for spending money on digital initiatives versus their relatively unsupportive boards.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a fascinating journey that yielded – count ‘em – 34 different competencies that fell into four broad categories: Content production ; think blogging, podcasting and graphics-type skills here. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Subscribe to our blog, today!' Let’s be honest.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. But an Apple-produced television has the potential to be so much more.

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