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

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Mark Dollins is president of North Star Communications Consulting , bringing three decades of diverse leadership experience to develop communications and marketing talent for his clients. They need to be resourceful in developing homegrown skills. Let’s be honest.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

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. And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

Self-aware 72

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

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. Marketing Sales Social media' are picking up steam.”

Media 11

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

But more recently, emerging-market locations have featured prominently in global firms’ technology portfolios. As the Economist Intelligence Unit has noted, emerging-market R&D is taking the lead on global projects because it has the best ideas to offer, rather than the cheapest. our research shows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

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