Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The following post is a preview excerpt from the Introduction of the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen. This book is about what’s next in what I believe will be an increasingly VUCA World, on a meandering path toward—but never quite reaching—distributed everything. In Future Tense.

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Leadership Open-book McKinsey Workshop 190

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

But remember, it’s not enough to identify the values that will drive decisions by all team members – Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Together, you can build a culture that fuels success, drives innovation, and propels your organization to new heights.

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Team Workshop Team Building Mission Statement 162

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 473

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership […].

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Wiseman CIO McKinsey Blog 75

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. Thanks a million!

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Rogers McKinsey Leadership Taylorism 100

Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

His new book Superhuman Innovation showcases how AI will supercharge the workforce, the world of work, and can be harnessed to deliver powerful change. It is a practical guide to how AI and Machine Learning are impacting not only how businesses, brands, and agencies innovate, but also what they innovate: products, services and content.

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Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 93

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This approach very much links to social innovation and indeed conspicuous altruism. With good leadership at the core of these businesses, every member of the organisation are enabled to understand and demonstrate ‘why they do it, what they do and how they do it’. Because business has to be about more than just profit.

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Brand Supply Chain Ethics Reputation 189

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 7, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Craving: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough Omar Manejwala, M.D.

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Blog Film McKinsey Talent Management 75

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. Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. That is what this book is about. 5: Analyze.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win Steven Gary Blank Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st [.].

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Govindarajan Blog Rogers McKinsey 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business? of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office” Compelling People Dave Kerpen HBR Huffington Post Hugh Martin (chief executive of Sensity Systems) in “The Corner Office” Inc.

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Blog ROI Film McKinsey 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Trust, Inc.:

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Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Author or editor of 29 books. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities Around the World Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (Second Edition) Dennis N.

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Blog Globalization Review Innovation 80

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

This is the advice from the authors of the new book, Connect: How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society. The book is all about redefining three discredited works: Corporate Social Responsibility. Engage radically -- a completely open, proactive and constructive approach to the outside world.

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Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

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 [.].

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Blog Creativity Review Innovation 89

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Their early investors are a ‘Who’s Who’ list of innovators and billionaires, including Marc Benioff, Founder’s Fund , Khosla Ventures, Bezos Expeditions , and Goldman Sachs. Zocdoc is an innovative medical care startup that solves a nasty problem we all face—scheduling an appointment with a new doctor.

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McKinsey Entrepreneur Technology Learning-by-Doing 246

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. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R.

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McCarthy Blog Review Books 95

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As part of our research for the book, we interviewed over 40 successful leaders of large corporations, startups, and non-profits to get their views about what it takes to become a leader. 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.

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Rogers Blog 99

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

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. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 15, 2019

In their latest book, Leadership at Scale , McKinsey consultants Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie and Nicolai Chen Nielsen modestly refer to the firm as the premier leadership factory in the world. The authors believe that these four principles form the basis of all leadership development efforts at McKinsey.

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McKinsey Leadership Leadership Development Reference 72

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 [.].

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Blog Review Planning Books 85

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

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." The themes of the challenge overlap significantly with an e-book that I wrote with my colleague David Duncan called Building a Growth Factory. Parallel disciplines.

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 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

JANUARY 3, 2011

They also need a methodical approach for making things better — a reliable approach for generating improvement and innovation. For most this is a profoundly different approach, which requires a new style of leadership.

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Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Managing engagement requires new leadership skills. New leadership skills are required. As part of our research for the book Choosing Change , we interviewed 60 executives from 13 global organizations. Senior leadership is also critically important in building workforce engagement in myriad ways.

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Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Food and food waste gets more attention, debate, and innovation: Can cows save the world, or should we make meat in labs?

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Russell Reynolds Associates, in partnership with Hogan Assessment Systems, has led a research effort to separate myth from reality, identifying key indicators of leadership that have a measurable impact on a company’s growth. Leadership is changing — fast. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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CEO Retail Class Charan 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big, Hairy, Outrageous Sales Growth Drew Williams and Jonathan Verney What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences Steven G. Mandis […].

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Govindarajan Blog McKinsey Delegation 75

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Stephen M.R. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368