Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. million times. Distinguished Service Medal.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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

AUGUST 6, 2012

In this lengthy book review in n+1, oil investor Gary Sernovitz is unapologetic for his line of work. "I Yet Sernovitz, reviewing Steve Coll's Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power , isn't afraid to dive into introspection. Social Media's Untapped Productivity Payoff (McKinsey Global Institute). It’s 9:00am.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Globalization Media Review 13

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. It's an "irreplaceable motivator for high-performing technology staff," McKinsey reports. Big Pharma's Questionable Start-Up Strategy (Technology Review). INSIDE OUT OR OUTSIDE IN?

Development 13

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 13

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. Packaging up Management Innovation.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

As an anecdote, McKinsey Quarterly offers a starter kit of sorts for developing an organizational point of view on risk that should inform the way executives make decisions. They could then encourage further work on these ideas before formally reviewing them. To begin, say Tim Koller and two co-authors, up the ante on risky projects.

Exit Strategy 14

Exit Strategy How To McKinsey Project 14

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

MARCH 22, 2012

To succeed in this new world, individuals must proactively and comprehensively embed multicultural leadership skills into their career development plans. 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

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

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. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Story by Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partners.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

” Yet, a study of 33,000 employees in 26 countries showed that independent workers were more satisfied, innovative, and engaged with their clients than regular employees, even those regular employees designated as high potentials. Second, reframing the debate shifts the focus toward unleashing latent value for workers and society.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Globalization Health Care Innovation 8

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. Our initial experience of training 2000 teachers yielded excellent reviews but NO classroom change. None seem to have quite delivered results.

Education 15

Education Benchmarking McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 15

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But now, just as the recruiters predicted, automating the next wave of cognitive work (think diagnosing diseases or reviewing legal documents) will prove much more difficult, slowing the process until we figure out how to do it. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

Technology 8

Technology Education Analysis McKinsey 8

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. Integrated networks. Prepared mind. Intellectual thread.

Globalization 9

Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

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

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 Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Companies like GE and McKinsey are rigorous about promotion standards, but they are the exceptions. That's just table stakes, the minimum needed to get you into consideration for a promotion. But finding out what else is required is tricky. Few companies spell out the criteria they use to make promotions to the first rung of management.

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 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In a 10-year McKinsey study cited in this HBR article , top executives reported being five times as productive in a flow state. There are parallel career tracks all the way to some of the most senior roles, so that people can keep doing what they’re best at, whether it’s writing code or leading a team.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing McKinsey Hotels Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

After stints at Applied Materials and McKinsey, he joined Google just a little over 10 years ago. He spent the early phases of his career there as a product manager, working on products such as Toolbar. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

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 fallout was dramatic: the Secretary of Veterans Affairs resigned and the FBI initiated a criminal investigation.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8