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Creating more value with corporate strategy: McKinsey Global Survey results

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online (January 2011).

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Strategy Execution Newsletter - September 2011 - The Strategic Planning Edition

Six Disciplines

In a recent McKinsey quarterly survey of nearly 800 top executives: Only 45 percent of the respondents said they were satisfied with their strategic-planning process. Even top-performing companies undertake a time-consuming strategic planning process that unfortunately leaves many executives frustrated with the results.

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Going for growth in a go-slow world

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Lowell Bryan, John Horn, and Sven Smit, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company.

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Rethink Leadership for the XX Factor

Coaching Tip

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. The McKinsey study shows women in general opt at far higher rates than men for staff jobs, sometimes labeled "the pink ghetto."

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Strategy Execution Newsletter - September 2011 - The Strategic Planning Edition

Six Disciplines

In a recent McKinsey quarterly survey of nearly 800 top executives: Only 45 percent of the respondents said they were satisfied with their strategic-planning process. Even top-performing companies undertake a time-consuming strategic planning process that unfortunately leaves many executives frustrated with the results.

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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

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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Morning Advantage: The Sky Is Falling, but the Ceiling Is Fine

Harvard Business Review

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). Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report. US Housing, Survey Data Point to Resilient Recovery (Oxford Analytica).

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