Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. This book is a must-read guide for leaders in various sectors who are keen on not only ensuring current success, but protecting the planet’s future for everyone. Through them all, he's managed to guide his team out the other side successfully.

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Books Leadership Middle Management Chemicals 242

CO2

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As we journey through the ever-evolving landscape of our careers and personal lives, it becomes clear that every challenge, every peak we reach, is unique. This means not only setting the direction but also empowering your team to bring their unique perspectives and ideas to the journey.

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Leadership McKinsey Innovation Learning-by-Doing 78

CO2

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“When you reach the top, keep climbing“ – Zen Proverb In a world where the peak of success is often the ultimate goal, it’s easy to forget that true leadership is a never-ending ascent, beyond the summit. But as any seasoned leader will tell you, the landscape of success is ever-changing.

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Leadership McKinsey Report Goal 78

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. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2024

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. All of my books provide frameworks, pitfalls and traps, tips and techniques, best practices research, and examples focused on personal, team, and organization training and development.

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Training Development 360-Degree Feedback Human Resources 78

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. Interpersonal roles, such as leading a team, representing the company to the outside world, and acting as a liaison. —Vince Lombardi.

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Quality Leadership McKinsey Training 166

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Your goal must be to ensure your team members are regularly performing work that they are good at and care about. It won’t always be like this, however.

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Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

HR Digest

JUNE 16, 2023

HR’s contribution towards transformation of organization HR needs to begin by enhancing their skills in for future success. times more likely to report organizational outperformance, McKinsey research has shown. The goal of HR is to navigate the organization to be future ready, flexible, and adaptive. Few of them are explained.

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McKinsey Agility Learning-by-Doing Organization 98

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Yet they also see diversity in the workplace as having very little impact on the company’s success. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Leveraging diversity on teams will lead to more creative solutions and innovations.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 27, 2013

dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Unlimited Sales Success: 12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever […].

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Blog Handbook McKinsey Agility 80

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Liz Weber of Weber Business Services provided Can You Lead When Your Team is in Crises? Welcome to the April 2020 Leadership Development Carnival!

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 238

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. Make sure your branded careers site is appealing to recent graduates. Hiring Fresh Graduates.

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Company Diversity Career Quality 98

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

It empowers team members to think better, feel better, listen better, and perform better. Google, Apple, McKinsey & Co., Deutsche Bank, Procter & Gamble, and General Mills have all implemented successful mindfulness programs. Take the first step–for yourself and for your team–and see what rewards await.

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Stress Workshop Crisis McKinsey 136

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. Make sure your branded careers site is appealing to recent graduates. Access a passive talent pool.

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. Make sure your branded careers site is appealing to recent graduates. Hiring Fresh Graduates.

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Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Armed Forces look for employment after their military careers, many industries don’t immediately recognize the great potential that leaders from the U.S. Army and industry leaders share similar beliefs about what competencies are most important to the success of their organizations. But as veterans of the U.S.

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Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

Whether they are looking within their own team, the broader organization, or outside the company, a good leader always has a notion of who will be sitting in their chair next. When the seat becomes empty it is too late to think about succession planning ( a topic we’ve covered in depth on our blog in this post – click here to read it ).

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Training Blog Greenleaf Maslow 257

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. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0 addressed this crucial area any better.

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Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

In contrast, teams that identify and share their hopes create the conditions for sustained, enthusiastic, and superior results. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company.

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Bond Participative McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 50

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.

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 14

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

It’s an inherently impersonal experience that some applicants liken to a black hole, as you fire off your application but are extremely unlikely to hear anything back, both due to the weight of the competition but also the workload piled on the HR team by that volume of applicants.

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Diversity Class Education Analysis 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. Here’s what we’ve learned about how to establish a successful internal consulting group.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

But the problem with this attitude, which permeates all levels of our organizations, is that it equates “hard” with “failure,” and, by doing so, it hobbles our change initiatives, which have higher success rates than we lead ourselves to believe. Our biases toward failure is wired into our brains.

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Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. It’s typical for new employees to initially place most of their focus on the relationships with their direct manager and those they manage, but others across the organization can be just as critical in influencing your career.

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Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 11

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. Nevertheless, leaders seeking to steer a business to sustained success need a succinct and pragmatic response.

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Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. This program builds connections between recent alumni interested in starting ventures and established social entrepreneurs, mimicking other career-related network structures that promote entrepreneurship and new venture formation.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Most career advice today encourages us to move forward passionately, intentionally, boldly — and above all, quickly. Career coaches don’t make a lot of money from encouraging people to “get ahead slowly.” ” However, in terms of fulfilling our long-term goals for career success, patience can be an asset.

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Long-term Career Survey CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

You and Your Team Series. According to a 2016 McKinsey report, Women in the Workplace , white men make up 36% of entry-level corporate jobs, and white women make up 31%. All of us were on different client teams. As I advanced in my career, I hosted women-only lunches and created open channels of communication.

Power 8

Power McKinsey Attrition Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. We believe that by working longer, harder, and smarter than our team, we’ll inspire by example. ” Instead simply doing more , sustaining our success as leaders requires us to redefine how we add value. In a word, we’re doers.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. After all, as Leonhardt points out, many top business school graduates start their careers with large consulting firms.

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Consultative Management Welch Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

and the EU15 is doing some type of independent work, according to the McKinsey Global Institute , and 42% of U.S. While one-quarter of contractors in our sample did have more than 16 years of experience, 31% had been in their careers for four years or fewer, and 27% for five to nine years.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Health Care Analysis Survey 8

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. since 2010. Both presidential candidates portray the U.S.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. The business model of Generation, a youth employment nonprofit founded by McKinsey & Company, where we both work, is based on that assertion. But it is possible to do better. and sixfold in India.

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Training ROI Attrition Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Launchpad is a phenomenally successful class that challenges students to launch a company in ten weeks. The thing I took away is that I can be an active agent in my own career, I don't have to have this passive approach to how it unfolds. Before my second trimester was over, an incredible team had formed around the idea.

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Entrepreneur COO Class McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to organizational change, failure continues to be more common than success. To raise the odds of success, however, my experience suggests the place that leaders need to begin their transformation efforts is not their organizations: It’s themselves. That left the most-strategic decisions with him and his team.

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Organization Self-aware Constraint Resistance 8