LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

Wilde 101

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription).

Wilde 90

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. 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.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

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.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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. Of course not.

Succession 8

Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But when we carry this mindset into our first leadership roles, we confuse doing with leading. Suddenly we need to expand our behavioral repertoire to incorporate new leadership styles as a means of influencing others effectively. ” Leadership' You can read my first and second posts on “the problems of success.”

Goleman 11

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? A glance backward reveals how radically firms’ expectations have shifted in regard to the CFO’s breadth of background and the caliber of talent the position attracts. Finance Human resources'

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

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. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

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. Practical leadership and management skills.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Industry 10

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. The Talent Gap in Big Data. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5 million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. Making good decisions seems to be a comparatively rare skill.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15