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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

Shockingly, 70 percent of such initiatives fail to reach their goals, which represents a massive risk with profound implications for those undertaking such a large effort. This also means creating the capability — typically through a Process Center of Excellence (COE) — to build and maintain this information for long-term value.

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Executive Onboarding: How to Set Up Your New Execs for Success

N2Growth Blog

What exactly is executive onboarding, and why does it play such a critical role in the long-term success of a new executive placement? Data compiled by McKinsey shows that nearly half of all leadership transitions fail, and just two years after executive transitions, up to 46% of them “are regarded as failures or disappointments.”

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2021 Compilation

Leading Blog

The next normal arrives: Trends that will define 2021—and beyond via @McKinsey. Why Leaders Need a Long-Term View by @HarryKraemerJr via @stratandbiz. Many times, they are the reason you have goals in the first place. How To Encourage Creativity In The Workplace And Why It Matters by Dante Munnis via @pdiscoveryuk.

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Why Leaders Need To Develop Their Middle Managers

Eric Jacobson

“Too often company leaders view middle managers in a negative light as expendable employees who can slow down productivity and overall strategy,” explain the book’s authors and McKinsey partners Bill Schaninger , Bryan Hancock , and Emily Field. Focus on people rather than procedures.

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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

P ERHAPS it goes without saying, but a healthy organization will achieve more than an organization that is too sick to support your goals. The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Health is about the how. Assess : Mindset shifts.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

Firstly, executive coaching has long been shown to bring ROI to businesses overall, with one study showing that executive coaching produced a 529% ROI and “significant intangible benefits to the business.” Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully.

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Role of HR to Help in Transforming Organization’s Future

HR Digest

The goal of HR is to navigate the organization to be future ready, flexible, and adaptive. Clarifying the organizations moto Any HR that execute the correct purpose of the organization have greater odds of creating long term value generation leading to better financial performance, increased employee engagement, and higher customer trust.