Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 27, 2013

If you’re a board member, do you incentivize your executives to make a long-term contribution for the company or to keep the shareholders happy this quarter? Leadership Product Management / Marketing Purpose customers expectatons future value vision' You will learn things you would have missed had you not tried.

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Long-term Short-term McKinsey CEO 220

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey.

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Rogers McKinsey Leadership Taylorism 100

Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

The problem as Mohasseb sees it is that many leaders are stuck in their approach to planning and execution. Your planning and execution needs to be more dynamic than that. The market is shifting. It’s not the analytics, but the execution. Erase the line between planning and execution. You can evolve over and over.

Agility 157

Agility Uncertainty Competitive Advantage McKinsey 157

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. The risk of not getting leadership and culture ‘right’ are significant. 1) The levels of engagement continue to be alarming for Executive Leaders…or at least, they should be.

Motivation 130

Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. As we begin to see some kind of normality returning to life, there has been an understandable desire to examine how we can better prepare ourselves for the future. “The

Company 125

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 125

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Quality of Executive Leadership. Your executive team makes important decisions about the company’s culture and direction. A diverse workforce is good for your business.

Company 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

The results from a new McKinsey Global Survey confirm the positive effects of talent management on business outcomes. Unfortunately, many talent plans were written at a time when the labor market wasn’t nearly as tight as it is today. When you are eighty percent there, execute your plan. Three years ago? Five years ago?

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Strategy Company Talent Management McKinsey 86

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.

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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. 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.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. One of the most frustrating experiences you can have in business is seeing a great product or strategy die a slow death due simply to operational resistance and unimaginative execution. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

Wilde 101

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2013

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. Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business?

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Blog ROI Film McKinsey 75

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. One of the most frustrating experiences you can have in business is seeing a great product or strategy die a slow death due simply to operational resistance and unimaginative execution. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

Wilde 90

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Quality of Executive Leadership. Your executive team makes important decisions about the company’s culture and direction. A diverse workforce is good for your business.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Only 52 percent of companies spend their time in a way that aligns with their strategic goals, according to a McKinsey survey of 1,500 executives from businesses of all sizes around the world. Some executives lost time by wasting too many hours online. Communication Articles'

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Tools Productivity Products Company 133

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. Co-founder Partners in Health.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

CO2

AUGUST 8, 2013

Sometimes they’re just starting out, and others haven’t discovered their brilliance; other times, they’re poor marketers or simply not very good at their profession. As an Executive Coach, I cap out at 20 clients at any one time. It’s too much to expect, perhaps, for the smartest to also be the most sociable.

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McKinsey Skills Executive Coaching Reputation 110

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

Metrics 50

Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. Next, if the person was skilled and/or lucky, more promotions followed until he or she eventually became an executive who could tell lots of people what to do. The world is changing too rapidly.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2015

We call that second piece 'leadership capital.' The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or 'the box' for short). Those are the outcomes to assess when placing team members on the Leadership Matrix. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm.

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Team Competitive Advantage McKinsey Energy 50

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. Include minorities in your company’s marketing campaigns.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Despite the huge impact executives can have on their organizations, failure rates remain high. So we wondered: If we closely studied the executives who succeed in top jobs once appointed, could we identify distinguishing features that set them apart and defined their success? Prescriptions for what to do continue to fall short.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Execute End-to-End (E2E) processes consistently : Assume that terminal check-in to gate management to ATC processes have been synchronized, but executional discipline is spotty. Add robust fail-safe designs to E2E process execution : Assume that processes from terminal check-in all the way to ATC are well executed.

Industry 267

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 267

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

McKinsey & Co. Many companies in my experience have a similar disconnect between their intended market or customer type and their actual client base. There’s a reason you chose those target markets or customer types.

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 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. Establish a set of clear and defined leadership competencies , so HR and other stakeholders know whom to fast track for leadership. For example, when a U.S.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Blog Creativity Review Innovation 89

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Self-aware 72

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

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Quality of Executive Leadership Your executive team makes important decisions about the company’s culture and direction. A diverse workforce is good for your business.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

As an executive coach, I’ve seen a lot of leaders like Liz (not her real name) — in fact, Liz herself was my client. According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. This reality can hamper your leadership effectiveness if you have no plan to address it.

Learning Curve 11

Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 11

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

MAY 22, 2012

A new McKinsey study (PDF) reports statistically what we already knew from personal experience: that mid-career and senior women tend to be found disproportionally in staff jobs, or "pink ghettos," relative to men. according to the same McKinsey report). They put in mentoring programs, and women's networks and leadership courses.

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McKinsey Mentor Diversity Report 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. The research, conducted with analytical support from McKinsey and funding from Omidyar Network, included interviews with 37 investors and 10 social enterprise leaders.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Hiring and grooming local talent in key markets makes plenty of sense, but as IESE Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat explains in McKinsey Quarterly, firms that rely so heavily on localization that they no longer groom expatriates are being shortsighted. IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN. But the forces of growth are painful as well.

Wireless 11

Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The widely accepted view that strategy and execution are separable activities sets companies up for failure in a fast-paced world. We came together to consider why strategy so often breaks down in the execution stage. Executives formulated a distinctive strategy of cross-selling, which had much to recommend it. Insight center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 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. C ommitting to systematic execution: Turning ideas into action and executing relentlessly. One such is General Electric.

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McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Here’s how I respond to those inquiries.

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 17