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The 2011 Global Top 25 Companies for Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

I like to look below the hood of these rankings, to see if there's anything new to learn when it comes to leadership development. The companies that excel in leadership development do it better than the rest because they believe in it and take it seriously. McKinsey and Company. McKinsey and Company. General Mills, Inc.

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Rethink Leadership for the XX Factor

Coaching Tip

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. 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.

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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. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Copyright (c) 2011. About the Authors.

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'Woman Up' (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female.

Strategy Driven

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Whether you’re a man or a woman, it’s time to start embracing your feminine side (and yes, many women have squelched their natural leadership style for far too long).

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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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Africa's Growth Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

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. One such is General Electric.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

Social media center of excellence leadership skills ; including cross-functional team coordination, policy development and management, and governance, among others. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Prior to launching North Star, he spent 17 years with PepsiCo, retiring in 2011 as SVP and CCO for Pepsi Beverages. __.

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