Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors. Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities.

CEO 104

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 104

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors. Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities.

CEO 94

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 94

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors. Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities.

CEO 82

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 82

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors. Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors. Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

The results from a new McKinsey Global Survey confirm the positive effects of talent management on business outcomes. Unemployment rates continue to drop, making it even more difficult for companies to staff their organizations. Where the organization stands today in relation to these goals, in terms of talent.

Strategy 86

Strategy Company Talent Management McKinsey 86

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. According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” Reset expectations in a remote team environment.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Winning organizations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than the traditional planning processes. 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. 2: Disaggregate.

Disaggregation 82

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 82

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. Corporate purpose guides all activities and decisions within an organization. It stems from the organization’s mission, vision, and values. What Is Corporate Purpose?

Mission Statement 78

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. Corporate purpose guides all activities and decisions within an organization. It stems from the organization’s mission, vision, and values. What Is Corporate Purpose?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

Organization 9

Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

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. The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 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

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change.

Content 8

Content Survey Talent Management 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? So don’t. Insight Center. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Banking Reference Human Capital 8

HR Digest

APRIL 4, 2024

However, despite the many benefits of developing an experimental workplace culture , most organizations choose to stick to the traditional work environment and avoid straying too far from the familiar. As fantastical as it sounds, it isn’t impossible to foster such a culture of experimentation.

Innovation 52

Innovation Project McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

Over the past decade, a team from Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford has systematically surveyed global management. First, not surprisingly, we find that organizations with better management massively outperform their disorganized competitors. has more flexible labor markets.

Management 15

Management Survey Class Lean Production 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

“Digital is coming and it’s coming fast”; “No industry sector is immune to disruption”; “One thing is certain about digital transformation: It will be a big change for your entire organization”; “Digital will disrupt your industry.” And this leads to a very different dynamic in the market.

McCallum 9

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

and the EU15 is doing some type of independent work, according to the McKinsey Global Institute , and 42% of U.S. And when it comes to experience, companies in the market for contractors shouldn’t limit themselves to costly industry veterans. Consider raising their pay above market rates to ensure project continuity.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Health Care Analysis Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

Minto 13

Minto How To McKinsey Software 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. 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.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. Can you drive both new opportunities and new behavior within your organization while achieving social impact? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. It’s gone digital.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

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. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

McKinsey & Co. As we all know, driving change in an organization is difficult. While the changes that I've advocated are straightforward, they can't be implemented unless they are reinforced by the C-Level of an organization. There are three reasons why "better pricing" should be your company's top priority.

Price 14

Price Strategy P&L Incentives 14

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.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

What I can do, though, is to use Google's dilemma as an opportunity to remind leaders everywhere about what it takes to build a people-centered organization in an era when talented people have so many opportunities. He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent.

Tacit Knowledge 14

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. She ultimately built a strong private-public sector coalition by convincing existing members to tap their networks and bring other organizations on board.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development. CSOs are usually in charge of their organizations’ trend forecasting, which can point to growth opportunities and looming disruptions. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

If you find calves that can survive in a poor and hostile environment, the minute they get to your farm they will blossom.”. He operates in a similar environment, analyzes the same companies in the same sector, and has the same clients. I told him they came from a dry-land farm with very poor soil and low quality grass. “See,”

How To 8

How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Meanwhile, the parliamentary victories of upstart, off-center (and off-the-wall) political organizations — Exhibit A: the Pirate Party — has brought the sideshow to center stage. The Occupy Wall Street camps may have been cleared from the streets, but the movement continues to gather steam.

COO 12

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. In this enterprise environment, smart software is seeded wherever computational autonomy can measurably supplement, or supplant, desired outcomes.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Similar dynamics can be found in India, Brazil , and other emerging markets, with the growing need for global business acumen just as acute in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Certainly, there are opportunities within organizations to expand global skills. Find environments that encourage global development.

Globalization 10

Globalization Development Short-term Career 10