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Eric Jacobson

All four authors are partners or senior partners at McKinsey & Company. Arora has held various operational and leadership positions with Apple, Sun Microsystems, 3M Groupon, and Staples. Dahlstrom , based in London, is the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team. He is based in Paris. He is based in Copenhagen.

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How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, And Adapt

Eric Jacobson

All four authors are partners or senior partners at McKinsey & Company. Arora has held various operational and leadership positions with Apple, Sun Microsystems, 3M Groupon, and Staples. Dahlstrom , based in London, is the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team. He is based in Paris. He is based in Copenhagen.

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Building Partnerships

Marshall Goldsmith

The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. At the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, a Director may often have less detailed knowledge about a client than a more junior partner. The challenge of leadership is growing.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. More recently we’re seeing this across a range of broader industries.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. Applying this standard, we identified 50 U.S. They employ 12.3

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Seven Ways CEOs and Investors Can Promote the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System.