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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

Considering that most change efforts only succeed 30% of the time, Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger (both McKinsey partners) put forth a change model to increase the odds of success (upwards of 79% of the time) in Beyond Performance 2.0. So, any change effort will be more successful when you focus on both performance and health.

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Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which co-authors Scott Keller and Colin Price explain why organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time to sustain high performance, To read the complete article, check out other resources, register (..)

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Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

hackmanagement: Very interesting post from Gary Hamel: What is Adaptability? McKinsey talks with 7 leaders and Michael Useem about the new fundamentals of leading in the 21st century. Cultivating Peace at Work by @mjasmus. Bill_George: Resignation of CIA director Petraeus is situation of great leader who made mistake (From @post_lead).

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/20/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Wilson HBR How to Aim for Smart Failure John Butman John Jantsch Josh Linkner Ken Robinson Leaders Everywhere: A conversation with Gary Hamel Lego''s Core Principles for Successful Interaction With Users Lest we forget this Memorial Day….

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Introducing the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. Winners will also earn the chance to appear and tell their story at the MIX Live gathering scheduled for late spring 2012.

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

That's why Gary Hamel, management thinker and author, envisioned the MIX as a collaborative platform to both surface bold ideas and inspiring stories and to make progress on a set of make-or-break challenges. Of course, that's not an undertaking for any one individual or organization — it's everybody's problem.

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