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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

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. However, compassion becomes especially critical during a crisis.” 2 Stein S, Book H.

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Recovering from information overload

First Friday Book Synopsis

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

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10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program

Great Leadership By Dan

For our program, we’re building it based on the 2011 whitepaper “ Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Woman’s Leadership Development Programs”. According to the 2010 McKinsey report, “ Woman Matter ”, companies with the highest percentage of women show the best performance. and “How will this program help woman succeed?”.

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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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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

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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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

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. The Next Analytics Age.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

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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