Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. According to McKinsey , the common reasons for failure of transformation programs include a lack of aspiration, lack of a shared vision, lack of engagement, low investment in capability building, and an insufficient structure for the transformation team.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Welcome to the April 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Liz Weber of Weber Business Services provided Can You Lead When Your Team is in Crises?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

They’re a safe port in a storm for their team. Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev has devoted two decades to studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making and the reasons behind the successes and failures of corporate innovations. The Mentally Strong Leader gives readers a mental exercise plan to become such a leader.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are reevaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. And your journey to a magnetic culture starts by recognizing that good culture simply isn't enough to drive top performance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively, in a way that doesn’t contribute to fear and dysfunction on a team. When this happens, I interpret this as meaning that our team isn’t working very efficiently. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A report by McKinsey Global Institute estimates that AI could add $13 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Actionable Insights for Executives: Educate Yourself & Your Team: Before diving into AI integration, ensure you and your team understand the basics.

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Supply Chain Ethics Case Study Handbook 195

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. Most of these teams struggle to innovate, often delivering incremental improvements at best. Simply telling a team to focus on innovation won’t suffice. You need to thoughtfully select people with the right mindset for the team. The problem?

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

How to Help Your Team Feel Their Purpose at Work by @LollyDaskal. Reaching a tipping point in leadership development via @McKinsey. Here Is How Smart People Can Stop Sabotaging Their Success by @LaRaeQuy. Inclusive Leaders, Inclusive Workplaces: 5 Reasons You Can’t Have One Without the Other by @jenniferbrown via @bkpub.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Companies spend considerable amount of time and money on developing leaders through training programs and workshops. My experience so far suggests that these time-bound and finite interventions fail over a long run in developing leadership capabilities. Subscribe via RSS , Connect via Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.

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Training Development McKinsey Long-term 172

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index , which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. Indeed, the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute ranks the country a lowly 122nd out of 137 countries. This compares to neighboring India, which ranks 69th. Data colonies.

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CO2

JANUARY 14, 2024

Self-reflection enables executives to understand their strengths and areas for growth, fostering a leadership style that is authentic and resonant with their team’s values. A study by McKinsey & Company highlights that 86% of CEOs who prioritized innovation successfully led their companies through recent economic uncertainties.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 12, 2019

Renae Asks: I’m trying to use my time wisely, and that means being strategic in the leadership training opportunities I pursue, as well as the ones I set up for the team I manage. Which qualities would you say are most necessary for people to develop if they wish to become key leaders in their organization ?

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

You'll learn from more than a hundred successful leaders who share their powerful insights and compelling stories of how to make the leap, along with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following, moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Developing the skills to engage team members is important. As a leader you are obligated to develop your skills to influence and support each and every team member. Your goal must be to ensure your team members are regularly performing work that they are good at and care about. Maybe, no more so than right now.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2018

18 Hard Things to Do If You Want to Be a Successful Leader by @LollyDaskal. Personal Development: A Learning Journey is Its Own Reward from @wallybock. 6 Tips for a Great Personal Development Plan from @wallybock. What to Do When You Can’t Face Your Team by Mark Ellis via @leadchangegroup. via @KateNasser.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“When you reach the top, keep climbing“ – Zen Proverb In a world where the peak of success is often the ultimate goal, it’s easy to forget that true leadership is a never-ending ascent, beyond the summit. But as any seasoned leader will tell you, the landscape of success is ever-changing.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Whether you’re an emerging leader or an established figure in your field, every step up that proverbial mountain is an opportunity to evolve and elevate not just yourself, but your team and organization as well. Collective Ascent: Elevating Teams and Organizations Leadership is not a solo climb.

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Leadership McKinsey Innovation Learning-by-Doing 78

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.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 17, 2023

“Too often company leaders view middle managers in a negative light as expendable employees who can slow down productivity and overall strategy,” explain the book’s authors and McKinsey partners Bill Schaninger , Bryan Hancock , and Emily Field. Focus on people rather than procedures.

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HR Digest

JUNE 16, 2023

HR has thrived during this difficult time and helped in transforming organizations where the function is well led, has strong senior stakeholder support, has prioritized leadership development , and has already commenced a digital transformation journey. times more likely to report organizational outperformance, McKinsey research has shown.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2018

A McKinsey Global Institute report on future of the workforce shows that between 75 million and 375 million people globally will have to change their occupation and acquire new skills by the year 2030. Managers and their teams are feeling insecure, causing major health hazards. The human aspect is crucial to success.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Deconstructing the Development Mindset by @Julie_WG. 10 Leadership Resolutions for a Successful 2018 via @CCLdotORG. Putting lifelong learning on the CEO agenda via @McKinsey. Six Toxic Thoughts Successful People Quarantine by @talentsmarteq. Disruption Is a Team Game via @DDIworld. from @scottmckain.

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McKinsey Learning-by-Doing CEO Quality 161

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2020

According a leadership survey conducted by McKinsey , U.S. companies spend around $14 billion on leadership development. In order to do this and to be the catalyst for vibrant workplace cultures, they need to do one thing that most managers don’t -- they need to relentlessly develop their emotional intelligence.

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Quality Emotional Intelligence Self-aware McKinsey 214

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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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

Do you serve your team or are you a self-serving team member? The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make : From Team Member to First-Time Manager by @JesseLynStoner. How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey. 7 Things A Leader Must Do To Build The Perfect Team by @Terry.Starbucker. by @JesseLynStoner.

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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.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2015

10 Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Talent Hotbed by @PaulJSohn. 30 People You Want On Your Team by @BrianKDodd. Changing change management via @McKinsey The power of digital to drive change. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Decisions and Timing by Ahmed Mujtaba.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. 1 Connecting authentically as a fellow human with what the team is experiencing is what really sets the stage for strong business recovery and growth. 3 Goleman D.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

It is also not news that diversifying leadership teams can pay financial dividends for corporations. Most recently, a new international study by McKinsey & Co. In spite of the long-established case for balancing executive teams, the C-Suite has remained stubbornly homogeneous. Moving the needle: Strategies for success.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Yet they also see diversity in the workplace as having very little impact on the company’s success. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Leveraging diversity on teams will lead to more creative solutions and innovations.

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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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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. Check this out: How I Taught the ‘Team from Hell’ to Trust Each Other. Great for deep dives into modern leadership development challenges. The Bottom Line. Leading the Way.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

I was asked to facilitate an annual strategic planning retreat with a senior leadership team. Leadership and culture development to build capacity for implementation planning wasn’t on the agenda. Too often, teams get mired in operational details and debates over minor issues. What’s Your Plan for Planning?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

While the HR team is mainly responsible for employee retention, it takes an entire organizational effort to make it a success. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees.

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