Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A number of recent surveys from McKinsey research have identified three traits that are becoming leadership imperatives to respond to this growing demand for social accountability. The post Is Social Accountability Changing Leadership? This societal accountability is changing the face of business and how leaders behave.

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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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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. Most importantly, by the end of their book, the authors sum up their insights and provide a playbook that will help senior leaders let go of the command-and-control mindset that has hobbled their managers for so long.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to McKinsey , the common reasons for failure of transformation programs include a lack of aspiration, lack of a shared vision, lack of engagement, low investment in capability building, and an insufficient structure for the transformation team. This raises some pertinent questions. First, why do these programs fail?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Guest post from Fiona Murden : In 1998 I graduated from business school feeling I knew all there was to know about leadership. As a result, those critical aspects of good leadership become even more important. Hence, I believe the fundamentals of good leadership are as true today as they ever were, but with a twist: 1.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 1, 2023

In my book, The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , the main character has lost his job and is traveling to take on a new position in a nother town – and during the journey, he asks each of the people he talks with one very interesting question: “Who is the best teammate you ever had?

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Teamwork McKinsey Conference Survey 169

Eric Jacobson

JULY 17, 2023

The new book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. Most importantly, by the end of their book, the authors sum up their insights and provide a playbook that will help senior leaders let go of the command-and-control mindset that has hobbled their managers for so long.

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Middle Management Management McKinsey Talent Management 65

Kevin Eikenberry

APRIL 15, 2018

by Tom Peters In 1982, two consultants at McKinsey & Co. published a book to little fanfare. The post The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs That Last appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Now, 36 years later, Peters has published what he calls […].

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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. Remember, a culture of appreciation goes a long way in keeping employees engaged and motivated.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Some of the world’s most well-managed companies offer intensive leadership training with an emphasis on creating an awareness of leadership. Author Shu Hattori writes in “The McKinsey Edge” that these approaches to leadership are among the many aspects of success in a competitive environment. Your First Leadership Job.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 3, 2019

During a break in a recent leadership development workshop, I talked with the HR Director (let’s call him Rich) about all the work they were putting into revamping the organization’s promotion and performance management system. And Rich was failing his executive team by not providing strategic HR leadership.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 2, 2017

Thomas Barta, former McKinsey partner and senior marketer chats with Kevin about his recent book, The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader. Thomas and his co-author, Patrick Barwise, conducted the largest ever global study of marketing leadership to answer the […].

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 14, 2012

For Peter Drucker, leadership is about communicating with people , uniting them behind a shared mission and values, and mobilizing energies toward accomplishing the mission or purpose of an organization. That means that leadership is a means to an end --the mission it serves is the end. Leadership requires followership.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Mid-February brought the visually-engaging, coffee-table-styled book, Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt , written for senior executives who are frustrated by the slow pace and limited return on investment (ROI) of their digital transformation, and are unsure what’s holding them back. He is based in Copenhagen.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 29, 2014

Jeremy has decades of consulting and performance improvement experience in business and government, including McKinsey. The two critical leadership lessons in the book. Leadership More Human Podcast' They are co-founders and co-CEOs of Harvest Earnings Group, Inc. What’s wrong with benchmarking and brainstorming.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Per the 2014 McKinsey research study of 1323 companies involved in organization redesign, less than a quarter of those transformation efforts succeeded. Another key characteristic for a successful organizational transformation is an active, end-to-end, and comprehensive leadership.

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Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 20, 2015

. Great leaders get the best out of their teams by providing 12 core leadership “services” The best leaders provide these services in an efficient and effective way. . Today’s guest post is by Mike Figliuolo, co-author of the new book Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results. .

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Team Leadership McKinsey Efficiency 100

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Mid-February brings the beautifully presented, coffee-table-styled book, Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt , written for senior executives who are frustrated by the slow pace and limited return on investment (ROI) of their digital transformation, and are unsure what’s holding them back. He is based in Copenhagen.

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LDRLB

MARCH 20, 2014

Lindsey helps companies and their people get wildly better remarkably quickly through experiential learning, most recently in Learning and Development roles at McKinsey & Co., Their research and insights draw interesting parallels into the world of leadership development. Leadership caplan rao scaling subtraction sutton'

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. When McKinsey & Co. asked senior executives at 60 big companies recently why they are trying to advance women, "they laughed at us," says Dominic Barton, McKinsey's global managing director.

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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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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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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. Researchers Stein and Book report, “… studies have shown that [IQ] can serve to predict between 1 and 20% (the average is 6%) of success in a given job.

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Emotional Intelligence Training Goleman McKinsey 98

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2023

Each chapter in the book shares a part of Reffkin’s life story and eight practical lessons , such as: Love your customers more than your ideas. from Columbia University and worked at McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and as a White House Fellow. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

The executive wove-in many of the essential threads of the leadership fabric but seemed to fall short of spinning the whole cloth. My work on leadership development in the U.S. My work on leadership development in the U.S. I have also become convinced that with leadership, as with much else, brevity is the soul of wit.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

McKinsey alums Charles Conn and Rob McLean teach us how to be bulletproof problem solvers using a simple 7-steps approach. In the book they apply the process to individual problems such as, “Should I put solar panels on my roof? That’s where Bulletproof Problem Solving comes in.

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Disaggregation Analysis McKinsey Process 218

Eric Jacobson

MAY 27, 2022

Each chapter in the book shares a part of Reffkin’s life story and eight practical lessons , such as: Love your customers more than your ideas. from Columbia University and worked at McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and as a White House Fellow. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 21, 2015

We call that second piece “leadership capital.” The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or “the box” for short). The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or “the box” for short). Some other posts you may enjoy: It’s Not You, It’s Me – Is Narcissism Good for Leadership?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey. From @WallyBock The State of Business Books. Dysfunctional Leadership: 10 Thinking Habits to Avoid by @MarcelSchwantes. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. FT: We prefer bad bosses to be 100% horrible.

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Servant Leader McKinsey Strategic Planning Open-book 150

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

People have enjoyed flexible work schedules as the rule book has been thrown out the window, making life changes that once seemed impossible now seem a real reality. Many people, having time on their hands, as the world has “stopped” have had the space to reflect on their lives and how they are living.

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McKinsey Crisis Uncertainty Long-term 231

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 93

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Each chapter in the book shares a part of Reffkin’s life story and eight practical lessons , such as: Love your customers more than your ideas. from Columbia University and worked at McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and as a White House Fellow. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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