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.

Training 257

Training Blog Greenleaf Maslow 257

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. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

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%. Many companies are already putting admirable efforts and resources into strengthening a diverse pipeline of women and minorities. Government can — and should — help bridge the breach.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

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%. Not every retailer, however, has the resources to keep up with sophisticated use of data.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

The next most-represented originating organizations--the San Francisco Public Schools, Newark Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Americorps, the White House Fellow program, McKinsey and Company, and the United States Department of Education--each appeared in the work history of a founder of two (or about 4%) of these organizations.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 15