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Rethink Leadership for the XX Factor

Coaching Tip

Young women today are entering the workforce better prepared and more ambitious than ever, with more education and higher career aspirations than men. When McKinsey & Co. The McKinsey study shows women in general opt at far higher rates than men for staff jobs, sometimes labeled "the pink ghetto." Rethinking Leadership.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. Winning organizations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than the traditional planning processes. 7 Steps to Problem Solving.

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Taming Your Company's Most Elusive Beast

Harvard Business Review

Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. Please enter the "Innovating Innovation" Challenge, the first leg of the 2012-13 Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Tolerance of Failure.