Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Called "Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs," it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. it's a fallacy to suggest that there's a trade-off between unemployment and productivity." What a conundrum!

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

Not one study suggests that working in an office eight hours a day, five days a week maximizes employee productivity, satisfaction, or performance. Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive. Knowledge workers do not.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Constraint McKinsey Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

When Liz was offered a job as a product manager at a growing biotech firm, she was ecstatic. According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. Pgiam/Getty Images. But once Liz had both feet in the door and began onboarding in her first month on the job, she suddenly felt less confident.

Learning Curve 14

Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends. Along with MIX, Harvard Business Review and McKinsey have now joined together to create The Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The future doesn't happen in the corner office or the conference room.

Hamel 15

Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In the meantime, however, the press conferences, the media coverage, the statements by work colleagues and Union officials are giving us a picture that fatigue may have played a central role. A meta study by McKinsey found that obstructive sleep apnea is responsible for a $65 bil to $165 billion hit annually to the American economy.

Policies 8

Policies Training Transportation McKinsey 8

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. The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. The Impact of the Internet on Reading Behaviour,” a paper reporting the results of research at the 27 th Bled e-Conference). are picking up steam.” Wouldn’t you want to know more about this before approving your firm’s investments?

Media 11

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

” Technically defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” the term takes its name from the sensation it confers. In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. Action and awareness merge. novel ideas).

Environment 11

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The author of the book The High Velocity Edge , he also wrote the McKinsey Award-winning HBR article "Fixing Health Care from the Inside, Today" and co-authored "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System.". According to findings published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine , things have not improved.

Health Care 15

Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

“Because you’re from McKinsey and I want to work there,” he replied. Our panel event and conference reached a wide audience of professionals in business, with over 300 in attendance from businesses such as Eileen Fisher, General Mills, and JP Morgan. ” One student’s hand went up immediately.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Audience McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained.

McCallum 13

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

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. We've noticed there are no shortage of major conferences (e.g.,

Globalization 9

Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Last week Apple''s Tim Cook made fleeting reference to "new product categories." The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. Bloomberg West called it " tantalizing.". That leaves $150 billion on the table.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

One study on the impact of leadership deception in organizations showed not only that leaders were seen as less credible but also that employees were less likely to feel proud of their company’s services and products and more likely to express shame for just working there.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.”.

Succession 84

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 84

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The stress of dealing with difficult people dampens our creativity and productivity, degrades our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions, and causes us to disengage. Have you been in that quiet conference room, with a half-filled whiteboard, and an unmet business target? Perhaps you have experienced low ideaflow.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369