Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].

Wilde 101

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].

Wilde 90

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 75

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

Industry 269

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. The largest 25 food and beverage companies contributed only 0.1% Set your company up for success.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 8

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. PwC, meanwhile, calculated the economic cost of large global companies getting their most important C-suite appointment – CEO – wrong: well over $100 billion. Of course not.

Succession 8

Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But when we carry this mindset into our first leadership roles, we confuse doing with leading. Suddenly we need to expand our behavioral repertoire to incorporate new leadership styles as a means of influencing others effectively. We believe that by working longer, harder, and smarter than our team, we’ll inspire by example.

Goleman 14

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

A McKinsey Global Institute study unveiled at e-G8 estimated that Internet economic output is bigger than Spain and growing faster than Brazil. Web-intensive SMEs grow twice as fast, export twice as much, and are more profitable than non-Web-enabled, the McKinsey study concluded. The economic potential is starting to be measured.

McKinsey 16

McKinsey COO Technology CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). But companies should dice up the function even more finely.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? What Kunkle is particularly known for is bringing a cross-functional perspective to talent strategy at the consumer products companies she serves. Finance Human resources' That needs to change.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. How the best companies get up to speed. The consequences for not doing so can be dire.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

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. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Using her private sector savvy and entrepreneurial mind-set, she was able to more than double the number of California companies that support policies for improving children’s health and education. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The technology may be abundant, but developing, recruiting and hiring the people to use it is becoming an acute challenge for Fortune 1000 companies. By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. Making good decisions seems to be a comparatively rare skill.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information?

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

Blog 80

Blog Review Books McKinsey 80

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. Versions of this are ongoing at companies such as Netflix and Alibaba. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. Leadership in these organization demands humility and a willingness to convert trust in numbers into acts of faith.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. It’s the essence of agility.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

How many software companies really make it big, at least in terms of revenue? McKinsey analyzed more than 3,000 software and online-services firms from a 22-year period, finding that fewer than a third reached $100 million in revenue growth. Only a handful of companies reached the elusive $4 billion mark.

Software 8

Software Company McKinsey Incentives 8