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What Leaders Can Learn from the Most Efficient Exit Interview Ever

Next Level Blog

For instance, a recently published study by McKinsey shows that the top three reasons why employees leave is they don’t feel valued by their organization, they don’t feel valued by their manager and they don’t feel a sense of belonging. The McKinsey findings make the same point. If you’re a leader, connection starts with you.

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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

” One quote that never seems to be mentioned is this follow up in 1995, where Michael Hammer said: “In Reengineering the Corporation , we estimated that between 50 and 70 percent of reengineering efforts were not successful in achieving the desired breakthrough performance. A few have been utter failures.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

In early research , McKinsey emphasized that the distinctive character of the Internet of Things — which is predicted to be a $7.1 As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a process that goes back to Michael Hammer’s famous missive in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, in which he outlines the inevitable failure of any new technology so long as it is transplanted onto processes that were designed for a previous generation of tools. around its introduction.”

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it. McKinsey’s Dominic Barton went so far as to say that he sometimes advises CEOs to go find the right investors if they’re getting pushback from ownership.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. And it’s not just your company.