LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? You can find more at [link].

Wilde 90

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. McKinsey followed up with a 2018 report that echoed the finding of the first: diversity is good for the bottom line. Include minorities in your company’s marketing campaigns.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Too often, the focus turns to profit.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. Culture, strategy, leadership, branding, innovation, customer orientation and employee centricity must co-exist. Note: This article first appeared in .

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Read any article on hiring recent graduates, and you’ll find a litany of ageist aphorisms. In this article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about how to recruit new graduates, regardless of their generational traits. For this reason, strong executive leadership is important to 58 percent of Millennials.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Read any article on hiring recent graduates, and you’ll find a litany of ageist aphorisms. In this article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about how to recruit new graduates, regardless of their generational traits. Quality of Executive Leadership. Some pigeonhole Millennials as lazy and entitled.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

In this world of product and pricing parity, the delivery of superior service experience has become the new marketing, and the new real competitive edge. McKinsey: AI is advancing 10 times faster and at 300 times the scale of the Industrial Revolution. . AI to the Rescue. Read the rest of this post.

Content 88

Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 88

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Only 52 percent of companies spend their time in a way that aligns with their strategic goals, according to a McKinsey survey of 1,500 executives from businesses of all sizes around the world. Communication Articles' Some executives lost time by wasting too many hours online.

Tools 133

Tools Productivity Products Company 133

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Copyright (c) 2011. About the Authors.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

Metrics 50

Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2015

We call that second piece 'leadership capital.' The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or 'the box' for short). Those are the outcomes to assess when placing team members on the Leadership Matrix. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm.

Team 50

Team Competitive Advantage McKinsey Energy 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. However, as leaders in the new AT&T now realize, the old command-and-control model of leadership will not encourage the creativity and responsiveness needed to get tomorrow’s job done.

Follow-up 147

Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. These are not mysterious and certainly aren’t new.

Skills 15

Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Whether you’re a man or a woman, it’s time to start embracing your feminine side (and yes, many women have squelched their natural leadership style for far too long).

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Yet, as obviously logical as that finding turns out to be, McKinsey was right to frame it as counterintuitive.

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. A senior director of marketing reports to an executive with broader responsibilities, who in turn reports to the global VP of marketing. This reality can hamper your leadership effectiveness if you have no plan to address it.

Learning Curve 13

Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. The research, conducted with analytical support from McKinsey and funding from Omidyar Network, included interviews with 37 investors and 10 social enterprise leaders.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

McKinsey & Co. Many companies in my experience have a similar disconnect between their intended market or customer type and their actual client base. There’s a reason you chose those target markets or customer types. For more detail, see my article, “ How a sales force creates value.”).

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. The Future of Financial Services.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. But whether we're talking about Romney or not, it's important to question whether consulting is good preparation for leadership.

Consultative 15

Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets. This not only includes the obvious — is there product/market or solution/mission fit?

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Research by McKinsey & Company and the McKinsey Global Institute shows that digitization is having the same radical impact.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. After stints at Applied Materials and McKinsey, he joined Google just a little over 10 years ago. The old Google had always been a tricky leadership challenge. Find new growth markets – fast.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

More than half of the vital perspectives we heard expressing dire concerns about company practices, leadership behavior, confusion over strategy, resentment over unfairness, or fear about the future had never been voiced to leaders who had the power to act upon them. Corporate executives spent months trying to nail down a new market strategy.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. In comparative rankings they were generally at or near the bottom of the list.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent. Here's what Gladwell argued: "The broader failing of McKinsey and its acolytes at Enron is their assumption that an organization's intelligence is simply a function of the intelligence of its employees.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. He explained why he thinks so in a recent HBR article.) McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages. A McKinsey global survey notes that CEOs spend about 17% of their time with customers. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

According to one McKinsey study , the success rate for organizational redesign efforts is less than 25%. What are our markets? Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. These are surface-level, counterfeit solutions, and they do more harm than good. Who is our customer?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Greece offered a tantalizing opportunity to socially minded critics to condemn the approach taken by the euro group under Germany’s leadership. Grexit would further restrict available capital, shatter the fragile banking sector, and increase the investment gap, which, as McKinsey’s recent study shows , is the key issue.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And a balance is necessary if you want to access untapped market spaces, retain top talent, and get a competitive edge over competitors. Leadership is changing — fast. Set “how to gender balance” as a developmental exercise in leadership development programs. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

CEO 8

CEO Company Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

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Delegation Outsourcing Insurance Loyalty 8