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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. Doing Leadership. Mike Henry Sr: Un-Acts of Leadership. From @CharlesSpecht: A list of top 50 leaders on leadership. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn. by @LollyDaskal.

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Rethink Leadership for the XX Factor

Coaching Tip

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. 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.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If you are in any doubt that collaborative leadership is an imperative, and not just a fad, take a look at any of the 22 articles in the Harvard Business Review series on collaboration. According to John Chambers , CEO of Cisco, “You cannot create collaboration is you think leadership is about control.” Networks are messy.

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Win the Race for Talent – Talent Management magazine

Chart Your Course

Internationally, in 2012 the World Economic Forum reported 10 million jobs were unfilled in the manufacturing sector alone.The world’s three largest workforces — the United States, India and China — all have chronic and growing talent shortages, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related STEM occupations.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases.

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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. What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment? 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem. 2: Disaggregate.