First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.]. Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?

Crisis 85

Crisis Review Books Development 85

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.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

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.

Champy 8

Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Follow your leadership team, listen to your newest hires, put yourself where they are, and hear the other perspectives. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

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 when the leadership of teams is homogenous — read: dominated by white males — the risk of trouble soars. Italy and the Netherlands have also seen an increase since adopting quotas.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In a recent article published in EducationNext, "Creating a Corps of Change Agents," Jennie Weiner, Wendy Robison, Rick Hess and I analyzed the career histories of founders and top management team members of organizations identified as "entrepreneurial" in education and found that TFA is overly represented in the career histories of both groups.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

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.

McKinsey 12

McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 12

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%. Retail has entered the era of Big Data.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Social media teams – agency and corporate alike – are seeing their ability to add headcounts slow. The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

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

How To 8

How To Competitive Intelligence Information Technology McKinsey 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.

Audience 8

Audience Covey Stress Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

The quality of air indoors is a major health issue so our R&D team came up with a carpet tile designed to contain the fine dust that can cause asthma and other respiratory problems much more effectively than hard floors and regular carpets. 1] McKinsey & Co., There are plenty of opportunities like this.

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The company’s stance on innovation is truly global, with engineering teams collaborating among its network of locations. SAP’s co-CEO Jim Hagemann noted in 2011 that the R&D group in Israel has “turned into a sort of front line where new ideas are tested out and turned into technology, and it is succeeding well.”

Globalization 8

Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

TCO 73

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73