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. After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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].

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

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].

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

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 .

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Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding article, co-authored by Aaron De Smet, Johanne Lavoie, and Elizabeth Schwartz Hioei, and featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. [.].

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McKinsey Development How To Article 80

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. However, not every company operates in a sector where their everyday work lends itself to significant social impact. The good news is that people want to have a purpose in the work they do.

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How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

A recent study by Europe’s Institute of Leadership and Management has suggested that it may not simply be gender inequality that is causing this dynamic, but a lack of confidence displayed by women in the workplace. If you look at the behavior patterns of high level men in companies they display the traits outlined in this article.

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McKinsey Career Project Definition 199

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. Calendar Management.

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Tools Productivity Products Company 133

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

This leads to sizeable cost overruns, missed deadlines, disrupted operations, unhappy customers, and stressed out employees. This month’s issue of Harvard Business Review carries an article entitled Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think.

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Project McKinsey Emotional Intelligence Price 55

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. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” Pretty well!

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Such sleep deficiencies can undermine important forms of leadership behavior and eventually hurt financial performance. This article will explore the link between sleep and leadership before discussing solutions that can improve both individual well-being and organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Leadership 8

Leadership McKinsey Stress Creativity 8

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.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

According to academic estimates , the baseline for effective corporate leadership is merely 30%, while in politics, approval ratings oscillate between 25% and 40%. A recent McKinsey report suggests that fewer than 30% of organizations are able to find the right C-suite leaders, and that newly appointed executives take too long to adapt.

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McKinsey Self-aware Motivation Report 15

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. The current model is not working.

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Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 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

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But, according to McKinsey research , only 16% of merger reorgs fully deliver their objectives in the planned time, 41% take longer than expected, and in 10% of cases, the reorg actually harms the newly-formed organization. In this article we will show specifically how they apply to M&A-driven reorgs.

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Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. The only reasonable explanation for this disparity between effort and outcome is that health care leaders are not investing in the right operational changes to achieve excellence in safety, affordability, and capacity.

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Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 14

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. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Bob Lutz, who held leadership roles at General Motors, BMW, Ford, and Chrysler, describes a “reign of terror” that had long prevailed at VW.

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Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education. The answer appears to be yes.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. A common mistake I’ve seen executives make in new professional or leadership situations is assuming they know what their top goals should be and how best to communicate with their new manager and leadership team.

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Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 13

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.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Meanwhile, according to a recent article in The Financial Times , where a minimum threshold was adopted, there has been a marked improvement in gender balance. But when the leadership of teams is homogenous — read: dominated by white males — the risk of trouble soars. Both presidential candidates portray the U.S.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Just a few weeks ago Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co. Making a growth factory function requires that an organization manage the creative tension between minimizing mistakes in current operations and encouraging experiments in innovation efforts. opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: " Innovating Innovation."

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

And it’s been shown that once women attain leadership roles, the number of women serving in senior positions starts to rise. Of course, progress can be made under male leadership, too: Justin Trudeau, Canada’s new prime minister, named a perfectly balanced 15 men and 15 women to his cabinet.

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Diversity Report Globalization McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? And what type of leadership will take us there? Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. How do you convince major stakeholders — employees, investors, the board, and customers — that sustainability is the right path? Marc Benioff.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

He explained why he thinks so in a recent HBR article.) McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. The Autonomous/Autonomy Advisor.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies. One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail. The CEO was perpetuating the very problem he sought to fix.

Organization 8

Organization Self-aware Constraint Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In an article on the recall in The New York Times , Barra claimed she didn’t “know the serious nature of the defects until Jan. Creating a new leadership position focused on safety is a double-edged sword. Simply appointing a safety chief will not create this culture unless he and the CEO model a certain kind of leadership.

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 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. This has real costs.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

social media users actively seek customer service through social media, according to Nielsen and McKinsey Incite , we’ve made getting globally aligned one of GM’s priorities. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S. Keep it simple.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 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.

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CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk. Sound familiar?

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past. Could the organization turn itself around?

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8