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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2024

Leading Blog

Ty Wiggins, an experienced leadership advisor specializing in CEO transitions, explains how to land well as a new CEO, accelerate your impact, and unlock the most affirming experience of your career. Alex Dang has witnessed up close how VCs’ thinking and mechanisms can create successful businesses at companies like Amazon and McKinsey.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

But often, these top-tier executives don’t know where to go to achieve this critical perspective and guidance at this stage in their careers. But a study by McKinsey revealed that in today’s business landscape, employees also want to feel valued by their organization. How is that possible?

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2023

Leading Blog

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of managers and their roles. Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, but the future demands it.

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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

A McKinsey survey found that 82% of companies don’t believe they recruit highly talented people, and only 7% think they can retain top talent once hired. This commitment to employee growth can be a strong retention tool, as employees value the opportunity to enhance their skills and advance their careers within the organization.

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Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

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. The Training and Development section of our website has over 100 blogs, articles, and book excerpts on this topic that’s been at the center of my career.

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7 Steps to Bulletproof Problem Solving

Leading Blog

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?,” “What career should I choose?,” Like leaders themselves, good problem solvers are made, not born.

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Engagement and Motivating Employees

CoachStation

We’ve also learned that one in two employees have left a job to get away from a manager and improve their overall life at some point in their career. The McKinsey group recently published an excellent resource regarding attrition and the reasons why people leave organisations. Environments like that can make anyone miserable.