Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2023

Cohesive messaging enhances reliability, managing client expectations, while empathy injects a personal touch, resonating emotionally. McKinsey & Company’s report underscores that robust client communication strategies breed customer retention and positive referrals. Proactivity is key.

Training 112

Training Active Listening Bond McKinsey 112

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc.

Diversity 50

Diversity McKinsey Team Leadership 50

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.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

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 Remote Managers. According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.”

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

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 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Employee lifecycle management, which defines the major HR function, is somewhat becoming less complicated; HR trends in 2019 suggest the industry is poised to rip even more benefits from the digital progression. However, employee management is increasingly incurring more challenges. That takes us to the next HR trend.

Human Resources 87

Human Resources Trends Resources Innovation 87

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 8, 2013

Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school’s MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous awards for his research, which focuses on the challenge of managing human capital at small and […].

Film 80

Film McKinsey Human Capital Organizational Behavior 80

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Collaborative leaders understand that organizations are networks of relationships and that relationships are the glue that holds them together. Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. In fact, the organization benefits when information is freely shared.

Competitive Advantage 282

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Creativity Diversity 282

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Amidst all the revenue numbers and share valuations that companies wear as a badge of honor, the concept of employee relationship management has emerged as another undeniable sign of a successful organization. Conflict Management Why are workplace conflicts such a common grievance?

Schein 98

Schein Industry Long-term Automotive 98

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

Both blogs offer powerful stories and resources relevant to today’s leaders and organizations. This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. Great for hearing a diverse range of leaders discuss the most pressing current challenges facing businesses today.

Blog 52

Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2019

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” Have we brought outside perspectives and diversity of views to bear in the team? This may require a lot of debate in the team.

Process 71

Process Strategy Disaggregation Agility 71

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

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

CEOs constantly deal with “people issues” because, as David Larcker, professor at Stanford Graduate Business school, said , “Conflict management is critical in the CEO role — just about anything that gets to the CEO’s desk has an element of pleasing someone and making someone else unhappy.” All these reasons have to do with people.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

CEOs constantly deal with “people issues” because, as David Larcker, professor at Stanford Graduate Business school, said , “Conflict management is critical in the CEO role — just about anything that gets to the CEO’s desk has an element of pleasing someone and making someone else unhappy.” All these reasons have to do with people.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

CEOs constantly deal with “people issues” because, as David Larcker, professor at Stanford Graduate Business school, said , “Conflict management is critical in the CEO role — just about anything that gets to the CEO’s desk has an element of pleasing someone and making someone else unhappy.” All these reasons have to do with people.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Our series of industry trend research reports — created using our flagship 360-assessment tool, Benchmarks® for Managers — shows that great similarities exist among leaders across industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial, tech, energy, and government (civilian). Armed Forces can bring to their organizations.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. Companies like Microsoft and Costco use this type of process for their board selection, as increasing diversity of candidate slates is an important step for increasing diversity of the board overall.

Diversity 11

Diversity Proposal Groupthink CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In a global analysis of 2,400 companies conducted by Credit Suisse, organizations with at least one female board member yielded higher return on equity and higher net income growth than those that did not have any women on the board.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In stark contrast, organizations in other sectors celebrate their 100th birthday and look like they’ll be here forever. We got under the skin of each organization, to understand how they live and breathe, by interviewing people who work (or worked) with them, observing them in action and reading everything about them.

Organization 12

Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 12

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. 100 COACHES.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

And yet many organizations seem to go out of their way to make work alienating, frustrating, and unpleasant. For more than four years now, we have been asking people what an “authentic” organization would be like – that is, one in which they could be their best selves. That’s the organization of your nightmares, not your dreams!

Organization 12

Organization Mission Statement Diversity McKinsey 12

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. Access a passive talent pool.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. But as social media takes hold and changes the way we do business, organizations that understand the importance of these qualities are the ones that will grow and prosper. Juliano Howard T.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 Just because an entry wasn't selected doesn't mean it's not a worthy and important contribution to the shared goal of making all organizations more resilient, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. First, we were struck by the diversity of the contributions.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Over and over again, organizations are unable to appoint the right leaders. In America, 75% of employees report that their direct line manager is the worst part of their job, and 65% would happily take a pay cut if they could replace their boss with someone better.

McKinsey 15

McKinsey Self-aware Motivation Report 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

To gauge the impact of diversity and inclusion efforts, companies typically track metrics on the hiring, attrition, promotion, and composition of the current workforce. In reality, diversity and inclusion are not merely the number of nonwhite male employees you have. Marion Barraud FOR HBR. So how do you measure this?

Company 8

Company Diversity Analysis Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 They hailed from countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand, and all demonstrated the characteristics of what I call global work orientation. Photo by Christine Roy.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Smart organizations understand that in these tough economic times, no one can afford to curtail or shut out top talent, no matter their gender or ethnicity. In other words, diversity — especially gender diversity — unlocks growth. Italy and the Netherlands have also seen an increase since adopting quotas. since 2010.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They make up the majority of top managers in only four of those countries. On a macro level, a recent report from McKinsey Global Institute estimated that $12 trillion can be added to global growth by advancing gender equality. At Sodexo, we recently completed our own company-wide study on the effects of gender-balanced management.

Diversity 8

Diversity Report Globalization McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations looking for their people to love them better be pragmatic about their idealism. But the question deserves better than executive hand-offs to HR, McKinsey, or Myers-Briggs. What expectations should organizations love to encourage and encourage to love? It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Banking Reference Human Capital 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Employees who believe they are paid fairly are more willing to give back to the organization and retain their position there. Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Women are underrepresented in the C-suite , receive lower salaries , and are less likely to receive a critical first promotion to manager than men. Women made up only 20% of people at the fourth level (the second highest at this organization). Gender equality remains frustratingly elusive.

McKinsey 15

McKinsey Survey Content Company 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

According to McKinsey & Company , research of the largest US corporations shows that 62% of women are in staff jobs — positions that provide service and assistance but don't directly generate revenue. These roles very rarely lead to major jobs in senior management. And that is where women are at a disadvantage.

P&L 16

P&L McKinsey Consensus Committee 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

The diversity of ideas was as striking as the diversity of the contributors. We learned about initiatives and transformation at the firm level and the ecosystem level, from the realms of nonprofits, for-profits, hybrid organizations and coalitions of competitors. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

McKinsey 9

McKinsey Innovation Diversity Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. As a result MBAs were often seen as bean-counters myopically focused on data and out of touch with the challenges managers face in the real world. How well-established are these courses?

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8