Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

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."

McKinsey 112

McKinsey Leadership Career Diversity 112

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. Commit to developing and improving your social and emotional skill sets. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered. And learn to collaborate while you lead.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. They need to be resourceful in developing homegrown skills. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Let’s be honest.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Digital growth is appropriately a priority for a diverse swath of organizations, and boards need to get with the program,” he writes. Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. are picking up steam.” Wouldn’t you want to know more about this before approving your firm’s investments?

Media 11

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. Cordoning off diversity and inclusion efforts in a single department signals those issues aren’t priorities, making challenging conversations easier to avoid. Research shows employees are more productive and exhibit stronger problem-solving capabilities when they work in diverse groups.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

computing and mathematical jobs are held by women, consistent with the data that around 26% of the STEM workforce in developed countries is female. In developing countries, those differences are even greater. in the least developed countries. No more than a quarter of U.S. But the gender gap problem doesn’t stop there.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8