Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” And technology? Africa is the next growth market. Turnover is high.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

Interview: Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators Written by Sonia Sharma-Karia Wednesday 02 August 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email How do we make equality, diversity and inclusion a measurable goal and an aspect of our strategic success?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learning and Development teams of companies are working overtime to figure out ways to keep the organizations functioning in these difficult times. Training Industry research found that over half of learning and development (L&D) professionals have retooled or repurposed learning programs in response to the Pandemic.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Celebrate cultural diversity while nurturing a shared identity. Develops collaborative behaviors through facilitated exercises and challenges, fostering trust and open communication. Together, you can build a culture that fuels success, drives innovation, and propels your organization to new heights.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue. But emphasizing statistics ignores the uncomfortable factors that lead to poor diversity. These factors make conversations around diversity difficult.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

The skill shortage is real, and all the data points to the power of a diverse workforce. Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever. Hiring Fresh Graduates.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Through involvement, people develop deeper understanding of the issues and goals and become more committed to implementing decisions. Diversity is the bedrock of innovation. . When diverse perspectives are combined, discussions are richer, more robust, and more relevant and we find better solutions. Networks are messy.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

To help you cut through the noise, we’ve curated 10 of our favorite leadership blogs and podcasts for 2022 on leadership strategy and development. Great for hearing a diverse range of leaders discuss the most pressing current challenges facing businesses today. Great for deep dives into modern leadership development challenges.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

The skill shortage is real, and all the data points to the power of a diverse workforce. Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever. Hiring Fresh Graduates.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

Indeed, the authors note that “power rests with a narrow section of the population – the 7% who attend private schools and the 1% who graduate from Oxford and Cambridge” A recent study from McKinsey highlights how this is underpinning a worrying trend across the developed world that sees inequality widen.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. They Focus More on Facts.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. 100 COACHES.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.”

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Of all generations, Gen Z is the most racially and ethnically diverse, most well-educated, and the first generation comprised entirely of digital natives. greater revenue growth.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

The skill shortage is real, and all the data points to the power of a diverse workforce. Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever.

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Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

The ability to acquire and develop multicultural talent is becoming a critical competitive advantage for multinational and national companies alike. But this passive dynamic of lucky individuals capitalizing only on windfalls of circumstance has changed, with the new paradigm rewarding self-development just as much as birthright.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Real Men Go to Sleep.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. Giving up on expatriation implies giving up on building the diverse bench of global leaders that CEOs say they require," he writes. The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton).

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Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. Let’s be honest.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. In fact, both the sectoral and the geographic diversity of superstar firms is greater today than 20 years ago. Wider dynamics may be at play.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. million (or 67% of its population) gaining access to mass media.

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Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

From his first days at the helm of the billion-dollar open source software company, which lives, breathes, and bleeds the values of open source development (not least: the best ideas win, no matter where they come from), Whitehurst realized "if I'm not called an idiot at least once a day, then something's wrong.". The effect?

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COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Experience to Lead

MAY 29, 2024

A convergence of brilliant minds from top-tier companies, all deeply invested in the future of Learning and Development (L&D), gathered at this event to consider many topics, but the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on L&D was a burning topic on everyone’s minds. References: [1] McKinsey & Company.

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Emotional Intelligence Innovation Diversity McKinsey 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

With its equipment-supplier partners, SABMiller developed a standardized “brewery in a box” that it could quickly assemble. A second element was to hone its marketing insights: using the brand-positioning approach it had developed globally, SABMiller created a diverse portfolio of African brands tailored to local markets.

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Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They develop action plans. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. Training and development. There are many capable consultants ranging from one person independent contractors to large multi-national firms like McKinsey & Company. They ask “What’s right for the enterprise?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow. This organizational innovation drew investment capital from institutional players like pension funds and endowments and allowed for appropriate time horizons. We're already beginning to see innovation. This in time will bring much needed change to the social sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The development of new technologies is complex and challenging, and to come up with the next big innovation, businesses must think — and operate — in new ways. To us, that demonstrates that all digital companies have an enormous opportunity as they mature and look to develop new areas of technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. It's not enough to change one company.

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