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The 2011 Global Top 25 Companies for Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

I've always said if there was only ONE wish I could have when it came to leadership development it would be a CEO that was 100% committed to it. McKinsey and Company. All the rest would then fall into place - even the most incompetent HR department couldn't screw it up if they tried. Here's the full list: 1.IBM. General Mills, Inc.

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Rethink Leadership for the XX Factor

Coaching Tip

When McKinsey & Co. asked senior executives at 60 big companies recently why they are trying to advance women, "they laughed at us," says Dominic Barton, McKinsey's global managing director. The McKinsey study shows women in general opt at far higher rates than men for staff jobs, sometimes labeled "the pink ghetto."

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How we do it: Strategic tests from four senior executives

First Friday Book Synopsis

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. Note: Given the length of the conversation, I have included only a portion of the responses.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

January 19th, 2011 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Today’s guest post is from Mike Figliuolo at The thoughtLEADERS Blog. He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. Mary Jo Asmus : January 19, 2011 at 9:20 pm Gina, thanks.

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Why a Leadership Checklist

Coaching Tip

© 2011 Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist. The Leadership Moment was included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time , written by the business book experts at 800-CEO-READ, and listed as one of the 10 best leadership books on the Washington Post 's "Leadership Playlist."

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile behemoths such as McKinsey and BCG, to maintain their above-industry-average growth rates and keep their global office networks humming, have broadened what they do and moved down the food chain. Monitor & Co.,

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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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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