Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

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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Training Blog Greenleaf Maslow 257

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? Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale.” million results.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. Managers in the room learned little more than they already knew about the executive's personally. © 2011 Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist.

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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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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

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. If the corporate executives and board had probed into the unit’s sources of profit expansion, they likely would have taken corrective action earlier.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Like Satan in the book of Job, I've been going to and fro in the earth over the past few months, in my case talking to corporate executives, consultants, and former consultants. On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

So commences McKinsey Quarterly's report on the firm's latest survey on global economic conditions (which was in the field during the week leading up to the Greek elections). Given the opening salvo, it should be of little surprise to find that executives’ expectations for the global economy are waning. I WANT TO TAKE YOU HAIER.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. But there are plenty of others determined to circle the wagons around their pale, male executive pool. Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

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

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. Franchising speeds growth and entails less capital, but the risks include inconsistent execution and inefficient inventory management.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. What Executives Don't Understand About Big Data. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. More >>.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

52% of executives say that social business is important to their companies today. Many executives also cite overall organization shortcomings, which include acquiring the skills necessary to carry out a digital business agenda. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Harvard Business Review Analytics Services.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 This strategy reflects the " create, operate, trade " principle of Richard Foster, the former McKinsey executive who (full disclosure) is now lead board member at Innosight. Shareholder returns matched profits exactly, at a compound 14%. billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You’re in luck if your CEO, executive team, and general managers across the business are all accomplished analytical amateurs. A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

One year ago, Rahul Mewawalla was a senior executive building out the mobile arm of Nokia. The Fuse Corps executive fellowship comprises one month of intense professional development and eleven months working on a public sector project. Cities and states are becoming the R&D engines of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Email in particular is a major contributor to employees’ perceptions of feeling stressed or overwhelmed, according to a 2011 study. Combine that with a 2012 McKinsey report that found employees spend approximately 28% of their time in the office responding to, reading, or composing emails. What are your priorities?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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