First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership […].

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Wiseman CIO McKinsey Blog 75

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Hard skills are quantifiable capabilities learned in an education setting or training program. Senior leaders and staff benefit from enhancing their technical knowledge with natural and learned behaviors like empathy or leadership. The learning landscape is ripe for innovation. They reflect deep expertise in a specific area.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business? of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office” Compelling People Dave Kerpen HBR Huffington Post Hugh Martin (chief executive of Sensity Systems) in “The Corner Office” Inc.

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Blog ROI Film McKinsey 75

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. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Too often, the focus turns to profit. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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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. 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

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 2: Disaggregate.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. McKinsey followed up with a 2018 report that echoed the finding of the first: diversity is good for the bottom line. Diversity in the workplace is good for the bottom line.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Agility is defined by McKinsey & Company as “… the ability of an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and thrive in an environment characterized by rapid change, ambiguity, and turbulence.” 4 They Focus More on Developing Leadership Than Managing Staff. It’s the essence of agility.

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

There were concerns raised recently by the Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission, who analyzed the educational background of around 5,000 people in various top jobs across society. A shallow talent pool.

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Diversity Class Education Analysis 58

Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” A Brown education is being challenged to discern exactly what you don’t know. How will we alleviate income inequality and improve education? A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service. Only you can discover that.”

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

” A Brown education is being challenged to discern exactly what you don’t know. How will we alleviate income inequality and improve education? A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service. Only you can discover that.”

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Innovating Innovation. Vote on your favorite challenges.

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Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We also explored several decades of research on that subject published in HBR; and we reflected on our own experience in the area of leadership development. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. These are not mysterious and certainly aren’t new.

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9

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Education Execution Wireless Content 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: REVIEWS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Finding Keepers: The Monster Guide to Hiring and Holding the World’s Best Employees Steve Pogorzelski and Jesse Harriott [.].

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Blog Review Innovation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Recently, TFA introduced a program to promote entrepreneurship in education called the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

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.

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Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

As traditional hierarchies get supplanted by networked, or "social" organizations, leadership will become less a function of "where you sit," than of "what you can do." What does it take to dramatically enlarge the leadership capacity of an organization — and equip all of its people to lead without formal authority?

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Leadership McKinsey Case Study Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What can make the difference is superior process backed by practical skill-building and supportive leadership.

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Education Benchmarking McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. 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.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 15

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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McKinsey Innovation Diversity Long-term 8

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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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates. Consequently, big multinationals have started looking at Africa in a new light. One such is General Electric.

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McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Using her private sector savvy and entrepreneurial mind-set, she was able to more than double the number of California companies that support policies for improving children’s health and education. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership.

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Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

corporate boardroom representation , despite solid evidence that greater women's representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved business performance. European nations, so often criticized for stifling innovation in a tangle of tradition and regulation, have decisively leapfrogged the United States on this issue.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Never before has leadership been so critical, and never before has it seemed in such short supply. It takes extraordinary leadership to keep an organization relevant in a world of relentless change. It takes extraordinary leadership to navigate the complexities of global supply chains, industry ecosystems, and labyrinthine regulation.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Managing for Value – Governance, change management, organizational culture, communication, leadership. Institute a program of education and self-improvement. There are many capable consultants ranging from one person independent contractors to large multi-national firms like McKinsey & Company. leadership skills.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Co-founder Louis Dorval actively aimed, early on, to gender balance the company he and two other “over-educated, privileged white guys from Canada,” created in 2012. Unfortunately, this is a million miles away from the current practice, evident in the results of a recent McKinsey/LeanIn report. Why does this matter?

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McKinsey Diversity Learning-by-Doing Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

When I look around, I see a culture that honors being prepared, doing the right things to get ahead, and achieving more and more, starting with our education — we need to go to the right high school to get into the right college, to get the right job after college. The gateways of power have changed. Or have they? So, which is it?

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Power Venture Capitalist Business Model McKinsey 14

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article about John Hagel III featured by the Knowledge@Wharton website, sponsored by Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Download Resources Article Human Resources 75