N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. That’s because while business coaching experience might help leaders develop the skills they need for their job, executive coaching goes far beyond this and doesn’t actually touch the technical skills a leader might need for their role.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 320

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

These authors share that digital winners focus on : Balancing fast execution with deliberate direction-setting Developing systems so that knowledge is shared not siloed. After really studying the challenge, they decided to take the time to develop their own systems. Building a culture of continuous and practical learning.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

These authors share that digital winners focus on : Balancing fast execution with deliberate direction-setting Developing systems so that knowledge is shared not siloed. After really studying the challenge, they decided to take the time to develop their own systems. Building a culture of continuous and practical learning.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

To help you find the best resources amidst the endless maze of information, here are our top podcasts focusing on leadership strategy and development. Whether you’re an experienced leader or an aspiring one, there’s always room for growth and development by embracing more innovative management styles.

Emotional Intelligence 52

Emotional Intelligence Blanchard Leadership McKinsey 52

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey. 6 Ways to Stay Productive When You’re Completely Overwhelmed by Karin Hurt at @LetsGrowLeaders. What’s Your Organization’s Values Operating System? Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. by @scedmonds.

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Servant Leader McKinsey Strategic Planning Open-book 150

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

Indeed, as Martin Weitzman argued in a celebrated paper from 1998, recombination is not only the bedrock of knowledge production, but takes its cue from the kind of work Gregor Mendel famously did when he mixed and matched peas to uncover the power of genetics.

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Diversity Entrepreneur Innovation Gordon 122

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. This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. Great for deep dives into modern leadership development challenges.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

Hmm…oh, oh… Looking at the typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 project/operational presentations/reviews and updates. The session focused on operational and tactical issues. Nap by PowerPoint. How do you know?

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Planning Strategic Planning How To Operations 52

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Fortunately, the surgeon operated before the worst could happen and my husband recovered completely. It isn’t overstating the obvious to establish that, just like the muscles in our bodies, EI skills must be used and developed, then used and developed some more. McKinsey & Company. 1 Nielsen NC, D’Auria G, Zolley S.

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Emotional Intelligence Training Goleman McKinsey 98

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. However, not every company operates in a sector where their everyday work lends itself to significant social impact. The good news is that people want to have a purpose in the work they do.

How To 78

How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. However, not every company operates in a sector where their everyday work lends itself to significant social impact. The good news is that people want to have a purpose in the work they do.

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How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But more CEOs rarely understand the true position of their CHROs, let alone giving them the necessary backup to operate in the required capacity. Most CEOs rank HRs as the eighth most important function in their organization, according to a research by McKinsey. This breeds dissatisfaction of CHRO roles and HR functions in general.

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CEO CFO Human Resources McKinsey 63

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. Software Developers.

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Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” Their ideal leader is a person who develops “win-win” relationships and is sensitive to their needs for personal growth and development. Leaders will need to develop skills in negotiation and “win-win” relationships. In return, they feel a responsibility to deliver value back.

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Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. There is no point developing vast systems that gather deep information that is rarely, or ineffectively used.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 8, 2012

McKinsey 7S Model. I find the McKinsey 7S framework particularly relevant model for organizational behavior. The company had become large enough that the ad-hoc decision making was no longer effective, and product development was impeded by political infighting. See the image). But it didn’t last. Why did this happen?

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Organization McKinsey Organizational Behavior System 36

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. After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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. After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world. Ernst & Young.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

With so many products and services now within people's reach, though, it's interesting to identify the new frontiers of growth. That's a concern for many companies, as a recent McKinsey survey highlights. Some companies, we believe, can continue to grow by nurturing the demand for novel or unfamiliar products.

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Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. The total potential value at stake in these sectors is $900 billion to $1.3

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Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In an era of profound demographic change, another productivity revolution is a necessity. Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% It would take 80% faster productivity growth to fully compensate for the projected decline. over the next 50 years.

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Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2016

Amelia, the “cognitive agent” developed by IPsoft, can parse natural language to understand customers’ questions, handling up to 27,000 conversations simultaneously and in multiple languages. And because “she” is connected to all the relevant systems, Amelia delivers results faster than a human operator.

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Development Technology Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite studies showing that succession is an essential part of strategic planning, many companies ignore leadership development to focus on more immediate challenges. But your organization’s future success depends on identifying and developing the next generation of its leaders. For example, when a U.S. For example, when a U.S.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

.” And for those in manufacturing or production companies, the future may arrive even sooner. ” Machine learning algorithms are also predicted to replace people responsible for “optical part sorting, automated quality control, failure detection, and improved productivity and efficiency.” Insight Center.

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Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They develop action plans. They ran productive meetings. If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Training and development. Improve supervision.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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Bottom-up Operations Training Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 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. But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Yet more often than not, when innovation occurs, it's a "happy accident" rather than the product of a deep-rooted innovation competence. Want some hard evidence? This is hardly surprising.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15