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How to Make the Business Case for Change

Lead Change Blog

McKinsey & Company’s research suggests that 70 percent of change efforts fall short of their objectives or fail altogether. Determine the budget lines that will pay for your proposal or describe the financing for it. Describe how you will measure success and determine whether mid-course adjustments are necessary along the way.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. The existential difficulties posed by Covid were also reflected, with 43.8%

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Why Skills Are Key If AI’s Potential Is To Be Fulfilled In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

” A new report from EIT Health and McKinsey therefore offers a timely opportunity to gauge progress. The report specifically looks at how the human capital available to healthcare providers may be supporting, or undermining, progress with AI in the sector.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Taught two of the largest and most popular courses in Harvard’s history, ‘Positive Psychology’ and ‘The Psychology of Leadership.’ Martin Lindstrom – TIME – World’s 100 Most Influential People.

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Why Boards Get C-Suite Succession So Wrong

Harvard Business Review

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. Both consultancies have useful advice to help fix the problem: McKinsey describes how to set up effective integration plans, while PwC describes best practices for CEO transitions. Of course not.

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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. How well-established are these courses? What do alumni say about their experiences in these courses? Of course, alumni networks aren’t created equal.