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LeadershipNow 140: November 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2012 that you might have missed: A Great Leader's Year-end Checklist by @lesmckeown Making time to reflect. Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry. When Trouble Hits —8 Ways to Develop Resilience, Options and “Falling Up” by @pdiscoveryuk. Doing Leadership.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In their 2012 global workforce study, Towers Watson found 46% of workers are not engaged. Through involvement, people develop deeper understanding of the issues and goals and become more committed to implementing decisions. Click on the diagram to see the full McKinsey Report: Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration.

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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. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective.

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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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How Artificial Intelligence Will Supercharge Work

Skip Prichard

Chris spearheads Adobe Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships. With the recent advances of AI particularly around 2012, we had a convergence of computational power, access to a surplus of data and new AI techniques that allowed us to have this resurgence of use cases and applications. AI to the Rescue.

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Nice Guys Can Finish First

Marshall Goldsmith

What if you had to prepare a resume where you couldn’t highlight the elite college you graduated from, or your five years at McKinsey, or even your title at your current job? And start developing it. That’s when the GE board wanted to know if he could behave as a CEO. Pick one, any skill that you feel you’re lacking.

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What Are The Shared Values In Your Organization?

The Idolbuster

McKinsey 7S Model. I find the McKinsey 7S framework particularly relevant model for organizational behavior. The company had become large enough that the ad-hoc decision making was no longer effective, and product development was impeded by political infighting. It categorizes 7 elements that together categorize a company. (See