Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

A moderately good accountant who is great with people outside the firm and skilled at managing very smart people? 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? Who would you rather have as a CFO?

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Chemicals Welch CFO CEO 133

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

One of them was my friend Jon Katzenbach, the former McKinsey & Co. They may retain remnants of a top-down management style even if they don’t want to. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. Marshall@MarshallGoldsmith.com.

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Cost McKinsey CEO Executive Coaching 153

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Managers of knowledge workers – people who know more about what they are doing than their mangers must be good partners. Partnering with managers. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm.

Short-term 107

Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The result, Heavy Metal Management, was Sweden's best-selling book this past Christmas season, racking up 10,000 electronic downloads in the first two weeks of January alone. 4) Focus more on collaborative models of labor-management relations aimed at increasing employee engagement. But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Consensus Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. A hearty thanks to all of the entrants to the Management 2.0

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This is the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation and a call for inspiring stories, bold ideas, and instructive experiments that demonstrate what can happen when you scrap compliance, conformance and predictability for freedom, passion, and dynamism. Managing without managers.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Although the piece reads a bit like an ad for his company (he just so happens to offer such a system himself), he does raise a point worth debating, arguing that patients, not doctors, are best-equipped to manage their own care. A Field Guide to Identifying Bad Listeners (McKinsey Quarterly). COME AGAIN?

Marketing 9

Marketing Discount McKinsey Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Research by McKinsey shows that, on average, 30% of corporate earnings are at stake when it comes to a company’s relationships with society. As a global survey conducted by McKinsey shows, only 21% of business executives think their company frequently engages successfully. Apply world-class management.

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Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

A 2012 report on human capital from McKinsey added to the evidence, noting that organizations with top scores in employee motivation are about 60% more likely to be in the top quartile for overall business health. The next time Gallup or McKinsey do their polls, I''d like to see those engagement scores rise.

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Herzberg McKinsey Human Resources Human Capital 9

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. Social-specific skills ; like community management, social customer service and monitoring and a bunch more. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Just a few weeks ago Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co. opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: " Innovating Innovation." Portfolio management. How do you design, assess, and manage an innovation portfolio on an ongoing basis? Parallel disciplines. Identifying and nurturing talent.

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Along with our partners at HBR and McKinsey, we're delighted to announce those finalists today (in alphabetical order): Progress Out of Poverty: Business Intelligence for Those in the Business of Helping the Poor. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius. Story Lindsey Alexander and Steve Wright. Hack by Chris Allen.

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McKinsey Innovation Diversity Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Another McKinsey survey , conducted in 2011, found then that the average company with more than 1,000 employees already had more data in its CRM system than in the entire Library of Congress. are picking up steam.”

Media 11

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% New research we conducted at the McKinsey Global Institute found that while this is a very tall order, it could be do-able. In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In his McKinsey Award winning 2010 HBR Article, " How Will You Measure Your Life? As we fast approach 2012, my New Year's resolution is to be disciplined with my time. For 2012, consider a change and work towards the goal of better time allocation. Companies with a clear purpose include Patagonia, Ikea, Nike, and Southwest.

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

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Blog Review Books McKinsey 80

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

McKinsey’s 2012 Women Matter study measured a 41 percent higher return on equity and a 56 percent higher earnings before interest and taxes margin for companies that have the largest share of women on their executive committees. . Agno: Women and Time Management. . Related articles.

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Chief Executive Officer Self-aware McKinsey Leadership 97

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

I quit my comfortable job in NYC with McKinsey & Co. We rebuilt its top management and creative teams from scratch, and launched TV shows, animated films, a social networking site for children, an online shop for parents, and several mobile games. in the summer of 2007, and landed back home in Mumbai to start a new venture.

Marketing 13

Marketing Film GDP Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Co-founder Louis Dorval actively aimed, early on, to gender balance the company he and two other “over-educated, privileged white guys from Canada,” created in 2012. Dorval is also very conscious that the company has a lot to learn about women, and that managing them will require cultural adaptations.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Diversity Learning-by-Doing Company 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

Blog 89

Blog Creativity Review Innovation 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, [.].

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McCarthy Blog Review Books 95

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Gary Keller with Jay Papasan The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition Warren Buffett; Edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham Judgment On the [.].

Blog 85

Blog Review Books Rivkin 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field Mike Michalowicz HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations Nancy Duarte Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher [.].

Blog 85

Blog Review Planning Books 85

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. Simply giving them permission to take control of their priorities — focusing on the “management” portion of time management — seems to lift some of the tension from the room. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

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Audience Covey Stress Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. About 12% of the federal budget in 2012 supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to poor families. It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

This isn’t, as McKinsey’s John Forsyth says, simply for marketing or retail firms. The segmentation characteristics are adapted from Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller, Marketing Management, 14th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2012). . But sometimes the organizations don’t know how to start.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

online by the end of 2012." Such clarity is to be applauded even when, as is the case with Fox's Race Online 2012 campaign , the full aspiration isn't reached. This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan , who spent 30 years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy.

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

online by the end of 2012." Such clarity is to be applauded even when, as is the case with Fox's Race Online 2012 campaign , the full aspiration isn't reached. This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan , who spent 30 years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy.

Mission Statement 15

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Strange, then, that so many of our management processes, the ones that support innovation, are designed to avoid failure and to ignore it when it does happen. But innovation is an elusive beast.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

When Amanda Pouchot was 25, she left her analyst position at McKinsey to co-found Levo League, a startup that provides young women with career advice and resources. But the biggest challenge, she writes at Fortune , was learning how to manage people. Unfortunately, as Pouchet learned, management doesn’t quite work that way.

Management 8

Management McKinsey Health Care Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Tellingly, only five of the 30 CEOs Barron's picked in 2008 as the world's best showed up on a similar list in 2012. Maybe that mattered less in a world where change was better behaved, but today, senior management's monopoly on "strategic leadership" can rapidly turn a leader into a laggard.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8