Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Business stakeholders—customers, investors, and team members—are now demanding more from the businesses they “work” with. A number of recent surveys from McKinsey research have identified three traits that are becoming leadership imperatives to respond to this growing demand for social accountability. Cognitive Empathy.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Whether you’re an experienced leader or an aspiring one, there’s always room for growth and development by embracing more innovative management styles. Blanchard LeaderChat Perfect for those seeking diverse, expert insights into leadership and team management from seasoned professionals.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

This robust leadership blog from INSEAD features incisive pieces on strategy, operations and management. Check this out: How I Taught the ‘Team from Hell’ to Trust Each Other. Great for L&D leaders looking to drive change within their teams. The McKinsey Podcast. INSEAD Knowledge. The Bottom Line. Leadership Next.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While HR teams complete workforce planning, they will keep an eye on auditing current talent capabilities and anticipate future skills, assuring survival and growth, rather than extinction. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. The learning landscape is ripe for innovation.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

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. After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world.

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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. After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world. Ernst & Young.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. World authority on generations in the workplace.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. In the basic resource sector, companies that can cooperate well with local communities and governments are much more likely to secure deregulation, which promotes innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Opportunity is on the rise in Africa.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

” A new report from EIT Health and McKinsey therefore offers a timely opportunity to gauge progress. The report specifically looks at how the human capital available to healthcare providers may be supporting, or undermining, progress with AI in the sector. ” Developing the skills.

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Skills Report Technology Long-term 87

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Research by McKinsey shows that, on average, 30% of corporate earnings are at stake when it comes to a company’s relationships with society. As a global survey conducted by McKinsey shows, only 21% of business executives think their company frequently engages successfully. The current model is not working. Engage radically.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

A recent McKinsey report suggests that fewer than 30% of organizations are able to find the right C-suite leaders, and that newly appointed executives take too long to adapt. Even when organizations are good at assessing leaders’ talents (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. And they can create a lot of value by generating new business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. I conducted a two-week, six-hour workday experiment with my team at Collective Campus, an innovation accelerator based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Yet, as obviously logical as that finding turns out to be, McKinsey was right to frame it as counterintuitive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A McKinsey study found that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41% in terms of return on equity and by 56% in terms of operating results. as a land of opportunity and innovation.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

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. When it comes to the work histories of the other top management team members at the organizations on our list, TFA again stands out.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Previous McKinsey research has highlighted a strong correlation between leadership performance and organizational health, itself a strong predictor of a robust bottom line. Operating with a strong orientation to results. At McKinsey, we’ve been working on this issue with our own colleagues as well as with business leaders.

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Leadership McKinsey Stress Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Guy Laurence.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships. They take advantage of e-commerce platforms — and may even operate their own.

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Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. The McKinsey report on Big Data suggests the U.S. A more capable team quite naturally produces better results. Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. Together.".

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Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs. There are numerous assessments that measure everything from problem-solving and decision-making styles to emotional intelligence to identifying one’s approach to innovation.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions. I was curious to see how Sesame Workshop had continued to grow its operations over the years while remaining true to its mission to improve the lives of kids.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Social technologies — the software and services that make it possible to show off your vacation pictures to all your Facebook friends and follow your favorite team tweet by tweet — are not just giant time sinks that keep your employees from getting their work done. trillion annually. trillion annually.

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Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this is only possible if the senior executives of our leading institutions are what Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, refers to as "tri-sector athletes" — leaders able to engage and collaborate across all three sectors. Jeff Seabright is a model tri-sector athlete but they come in many forms.

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Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

McKinsey research shows that companies with advanced marketing and sales capabilities tend to grow their revenue two to three times more than the average company within their sector. From the sales side, teams need to be trained to take the insights generated by marketing and act on them. A cargo airline provides another example.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Nearly all contemporary organizations are increasing their use of talent from the outside—by engaging individuals, teams, and even firms in non-traditional work relationships and alternate forms of employment. Failure to deliver results. A fourth challenge is the failure to deliver expected results.

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