N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. Therefore, it’s critical to hire an experienced CTO.

CTO 389

CTO Shaw Short-term Agility 389

Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. By contrast, McKinsey & Company is an organization that demonstrates the benefits of developing leaders who stand out. —Vince Lombardi.

Quality 166

Quality Leadership McKinsey Training 166

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Yet, too often managers see them as negotiable. Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement across business units. Unfortunately, these criteria miss a crucial element: the right talent to succeed as a manager and leader. None of these points are theories. You have options.

Motivation 130

Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

They’re understandably excited to have graduated college and start their careers. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Most hiring managers would agree a currently employed candidate is more appealing than a jobless candidate.

Company 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

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 need to widen access to university was emphasized in IE University’s Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño’s latest book Philosophy Inc.,

Education 110

Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 110

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. Reskilling refers to learning new skills for a job switch or career pivot. Digital transformation managers. The big shift in organizational needs and long-term reliance on digital solutions are creating demand for upskilling and reskilling across the globe.

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

They’re understandably excited to have graduated college and start their careers. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Most hiring managers would agree a currently employed candidate is more appealing than a jobless candidate.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

They’re understandably excited to have graduated college and start their careers. According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Most hiring managers would agree a currently employed candidate is more appealing than a jobless candidate.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

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. Diversity in the workplace is good for the bottom line. Final Thoughts.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

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. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 2: Disaggregate.

Disaggregation 79

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 79

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Human Resource Managers.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. million times.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

The alarming nature of the statistic understandably triggered considerable discussion, with various other bodies, from the OECD to McKinsey producing similar research complete with their own predictions for the future of work.

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Over the past year we have been writing the HBR Leader’s Handbook — a primer for aspiring leaders who want to take their careers to the next level. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. Focus on measurable results.

Skills 15

Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This is the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation and a call for inspiring stories, bold ideas, and instructive experiments that demonstrate what can happen when you scrap compliance, conformance and predictability for freedom, passion, and dynamism. Managing without managers.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. You'll be grooming more complete managers and exposing your talent to a broader array of opportunities. It's an "irreplaceable motivator for high-performing technology staff," McKinsey reports.

Development 13

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. Both consultancies have useful advice to help fix the problem: McKinsey describes how to set up effective integration plans, while PwC describes best practices for CEO transitions.

Succession 8

Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 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. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Thought-provoking reading for anyone who has ever ridden in a car, used a plastic bag, or felt conflicted about their own career path. Business Blind Spots (Management Issues). When the Japanese jumped on the innovation, the Swiss lost 50,000 jobs, and watched as their share of the timepiece market plunged from 65% to 10%.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Globalization Media Review 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". I joined McKinsey & Co. Innovation is the imperative of today's times. Look at the seemingly prosaic world of consulting.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Library Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

When companies lack a clear stance on when and how to take risks, managers often don't take enough of them, routinely making safe investment choices over ones with higher potential. They could also require managers to submit each investment recommendation with a riskier version of the same project with more upside or an alternative one.".

Exit Strategy 14

Exit Strategy How To McKinsey Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

In China, both multinational and Chinese companies are finding their dramatic growth goals constrained by the challenges of finding capable leaders at both the senior and middle management levels. But how can young leaders be deliberate and explicit in building multicultural considerations into their career planning and decision-making?

Globalization 10

Globalization Development Short-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A McKinsey study found that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41% in terms of return on equity and by 56% in terms of operating results. as a land of opportunity and innovation.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Careers are very personal things. Organizations are increasingly using the wisdom of crowds to drive their strategy, innovation, and marketing initiatives. She decided it was time for a career change and began to brainstorm ideas on her own, seeking advice from friends, and even meeting with a jobs counselor.

Strategy 8

Strategy Advice McKinsey Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this is only possible if the senior executives of our leading institutions are what Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, refers to as "tri-sector athletes" — leaders able to engage and collaborate across all three sectors. Contextual intelligence. Integrated networks. Prepared mind.

Globalization 9

Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Few companies spell out the criteria they use to make promotions to the first rung of management. Companies like GE and McKinsey are rigorous about promotion standards, but they are the exceptions. Admittedly, this can be hard to do if you aren't already responsible for managing people.

Proposal 8

Proposal Maturity McKinsey Delegation 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. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs. And it confuses young, promising managers about what skills and behaviors they need to develop to advance their careers.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 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. The article draws from the work and writing of Ashish Rajpal, founder and CEO of iDiscoveri and its innovation thought leader.

Education 15

Education Benchmarking McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work via @McKinsey. 100 Percent of Managers Fail from @wallybock. The Top Trends in Tech via @McKinsey. 3 Career Development Questions to Stop Asking Employees by @Julie_WG. The New Normal for Innovation by Quy Huy via @INSEAD. What Kind of Team Are We?

McKinsey 383

McKinsey Ethics Trends Price 383

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

They manage each other, they take responsibility for actions, and they understand the dynamics of working relationships in a way that an algorithm simply can’t (at least for the foreseeable future). This is where strong managers and mentors excel. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Education Analysis McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.” Take inventory management, for example. 4 They Focus More on Developing Leadership Than Managing Staff.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

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. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers. Could the organization turn itself around?

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8