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. . In our new book , Victor Prince and I describe the 12 “leadership services” that leaders must provide to their teams: Directing.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 21, 2015

You can too with a simple assessment tool that provides insights as to how to most effectively lead the unique members of your team. We call that second piece “leadership capital.” The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or “the box” for short). The phrase “think outside the box” makes me physically ill.

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Leadership McKinsey Cost Comparison 100

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Army Leadership Trend Report.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Matthew Effect is a phenomenon commonly seen in the online world, as tools that ostensibly should lower inequality by giving all people access to fantastic resources, end up benefiting the better off because they have the willingness and ability to better capitalize on these tools. Fairer recruitment.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” But Brown has given us every tool and every reason to Venture Boldly into our discomfort. A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service. These questions push us into uncomfortable places. This is how we’ve grown.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” But Brown has given us every tool and every reason to Venture Boldly into our discomfort. A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service. These questions push us into uncomfortable places. This is how we’ve grown.

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Is it critically important for companies’ consumer-data teams to have someone who truly understands statistics in a leadership position, or can an untrained manager learn to be more discerning about data? Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career.

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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. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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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 success of Escuela Nueva in impoverished Latin America shows that structured tools can offset the scarcity of teaching talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Defining the roles, recruiting talented practitioners, setting up center of competence structures, establishing data governance across business units, and tying advanced data and analytics (AD&A) to the results of those businesses is lagging the deployment of tools and the collection of the data. The Talent Gap in Big Data.

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Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. In helping her daughter with a school project, she came up with an idea for using the company's bingo algorithm created for its casino clients to create a web-based educational tool. Challenge, the first round of the HBR/McKinsey Management prize.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Peer-to-peer learning can be a powerful development tool that breaks through some common barriers to skill-building — and it has other benefits as well. You’re more likely to have candid conversations about areas you need to develop with a peer than with someone who has power over your career and income.

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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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

This then expanded to "down tools week" which is a company-wide initiative, once a year, where everyone puts their normal routine work on hold and commits to doing something new, something a bit risky, or something that has been bugging them. Tolerance of Failure. It is axiomatic that successful innovation requires tolerance of failure.

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