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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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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Is it any wonder that it’s tough to calculate the ROI? are picking up steam.” But invest in this digital project and ignore the opportunity costs—i.e., But consider: According to a Gallup survey , about 62% of U.S.

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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. 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.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. 1] McKinsey & Co., Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We did that.

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The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math

Harvard Business Review

To answer these tough questions, we can turn to two of the world's best number crunchers, McKinsey and PwC (full disclosure: I have a consulting partnership arrangement with PwC US). For perspective, in 2011 carbon intensity improved just 0.8%. 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011. How fast do we have to change?