Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2018

Leading with inner agility via @McKinsey. Decoding leadership: What really matters via @McKinsey. Summer Reading: My Summer Reading Plan Inspired by My Father from @wallybock. Are you shutting people out with your communication? by James daSilva via @leadchangegroup.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Curiosity for Agility. You will need this to allow for optimal agility and to fully leverage the collective capability of employees throughout the organisation. A McKinsey article published in April 2018, for example says that AI ‘creates space and time to think by filtering the signal from the noise’. Communicating Vision.

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Agility Leadership Open-book McKinsey 256

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from Hervé de Barbeyrac and Ruben Verhoeven’s interview of Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, CEO of Solvay, for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about McKinsey […].

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Globalization CEO McKinsey Agility 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Christian Jourquin Hervé de Barbeyrac Jean-Pierre Clamadieu McKinsey & Company McKinsey Quarterly Rhodia Ruben Verhoeven the appropriate role for a global CEO seeking to build a fresh culture the dangers of “sequential” thinking the importance of strategic agility [comma] radical plans for the group’s top talent Tilting the (..)

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McKinsey Company Agility Globalization 80

HR Digest

JUNE 16, 2023

times more likely to report organizational outperformance, McKinsey research has shown. Adopt new organizational models HR can help create an iterative approach by developing core elements of the people-management process, including new career paths for agile teams, revamped performance management, and capability building.

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McKinsey Agility Learning-by-Doing Organization 98

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

McKinsey predicts that by 2030, over 25 million jobs in the United States will be automated. The continuing advancement and convergence of artificial intelligence, bio-technology, nanotechnology, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, and Big Data will automate millions of jobs in the United States.

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Career Learning-by-Doing McKinsey Agility 231

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And, counterintuitively, they illustrate how the creative use of authority and hierarchy helps companies to be more agile and flexible, enabling educated, motivated people and teams to thrive. Frank and Oded Netzer (Wiley, 2022) Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

We need a new and more agile approach. McKinsey reports that eight out of ten time strategists focus on known hypothesis—opportunities that have been examined in the past or are already evident. The data you are using can’t be captured in a fixed plan or you’ll have an excellent strategy for the year before.

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Agility Uncertainty Competitive Advantage McKinsey 157

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

Eccher Peter Gray: Part 2 Rob Goffee Rutger von Post strategy+business talent management The McKinsey Quarterly The Referral Engine These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way Thomas Williams Zig Zag' Lawler III Gareth Jones HBR How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas John Jantsch Keith Sawyer Management Tip of the Day motivation Paul H.

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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2019

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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Process Strategy Disaggregation Agility 69

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Copenhagen.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

But it also includes a real humility on the part of leaders and an openness to learning from others – whether that’s walking through agile working labs and asking people what they’re doing to visiting companies to understand how they operate to simply reading interesting books. He is based in Copenhagen.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In The Ecosystem Economy , McKinsey’s Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz paint a picture of the future of education that will see the ways in which we learn transformed. The challenge is whether the university sector is going to be agile enough to respond to it. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 108

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. Organizational agility.

Company 98

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 98

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 27, 2013

dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Unlimited Sales Success: 12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever […].

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Blog Handbook McKinsey Agility 80

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

The McKinsey Podcast. Great for business and management insights from leading experts at McKinsey. McKinsey’s podcast features conversations with experts from the consulting-management firm on leadership, change management, operations and more. Check this out: 7 Balancing Acts for 2021.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

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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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 80

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This was emphasized by a survey from McKinsey a few years ago which highlighted a 15% gap emerging between large and small companies in terms of the adoption of technologies such as industrial robotics.

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TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? And what skills will matter to you and your organization in the future? . “If Marti Konstant .

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. Morris has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in delivering innovative people solutions, developing and managing teams that operate in an agile way, and helping to build a high-performance culture that promotes diversity and inclusion.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. They already report that the domestic supplier base is hollowed out, depriving them of the agility they need to respond quickly to new market opportunities.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. Why are translators so important?

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Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that this change alone can improve employee productivity by up to 25%. McKinsey estimates that only 6% of companies have truly integrated Enterprise 2.0 McKinsey has found that the typical ROI of any social technology becomes positive when 15% to 25% of employees are using it extensively.

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. Luckily, Susan David and Christina Congleton explain how you can learn to do a better job of managing your thoughts and emotions in Emotional Agility.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

At the McKinsey Global Institute, we modeled these trends and found that peak demand for major commodities like oil, thermal coal, and iron ore is in sight and may occur as soon as 2020 for coal and 2025 for oil. Size may matter less, and agility more, while future growth may come from nontraditional sources.

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Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

To get there, brands will have to leave behind organizations and thinking built solely around the campaign model, and instead adopt the defining characteristics of the real-time, data-driven newsroom — a model that's prolific, agile and audience-centric. The campaign model, relatively speaking, is miserly.

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Advertising Brand Content Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Or take ING Bank in the Netherlands, which adopted an agile approach to strategy and execution that uses “squads” as the company’s “nervous system” to sense changes in customer needs and competitive realities and to give senior executives the data they need to rethink strategy and respond.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. Many organizations backed off from moving their data and applications to the cloud. The vast majority are still playing catch-up. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Insurance Video Long-term Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains. Story by Michael Cuthrell.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

To accelerate that transformation, the company launched a social platform (called "Shift") to harvest ideas and inject agility into crucial projects. Watch this space for more features on the winning entries and the launch of the next leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation in the next few weeks.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

Yet according to recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute, the U.S. Big incumbent firms in particular are struggling to keep up as more agile digital challengers deliver products and services in faster and cheaper ways. But it’s worth noting that not all of the have-mores are young firms that were born digital.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

McKinsey Global Institute’s Connecting Talent With Opportunity in the Digital Age study forecasts that the growing use of online contingent talent platforms could add $2.7 In our research we heard from company leaders that their businesses are turning to independent workers to increase business flexibility and agility.

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Company Automotive MBO Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. “HROs are agile, adaptable learning systems that respond well to the unexpected,” says Kathleen Sutcliffe, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, whose work studying wildland fire fighting is foundational to the field.

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Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

At McKinsey, we are conducting our own research into the impact of automation on jobs and organizations and recently published a brief paper previewing some of our findings. Automation also enables massively scaled organizations that can grow rapidly yet remain agile and responsive.

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