N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

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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Execution Succession How To Process 382

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. How do we manage the journey? Health is about the how. What must we do to get there?

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Hamel Objective McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 276

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. But how do we grow? Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 368

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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.” This is due to the fact that increasingly, employee values are shifting in the workplace.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. This represents a huge loss for businesses in a world where employee engagement has become a deciding factor in corporate performance and long-term success. Consider social impact.

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How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s common to see vague purpose statements centered around being the best or leading provider whatever sector the organization operates. This represents a huge loss for businesses in a world where employee engagement has become a deciding factor in corporate performance and long-term success. Consider social impact.

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How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The big shift in organizational needs and long-term reliance on digital solutions are creating demand for upskilling and reskilling across the globe. Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. Managers of knowledge workers – people who know more about what they are doing than their mangers must be good partners. In some cases, they may choose to experience a short-term loss, so that the organization can achieve a long-term gain.

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Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

Yet, in the space of a month, telehealth has grown to the point that 90% of primary care appointments were being delivered virtually, with apps being developed to provide remote monitoring of people as they monitor and manage their symptoms of the virus. Data literacy.

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Skills Report Technology Long-term 96

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Taking a long view doesn't mean companies should go radio-silent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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. Some large investors already have a long-term view. Take consumer goods giant Unilever.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

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Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

Mike Figliuolo is the Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. Make it a New Year’s Resolution to identify and groom your replacement. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Training Blog Greenleaf Maslow 257

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. But the article aimed higher, arguing that when corporate leaders invest with short-term results in mind, they put long-term performance at risk.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But how will AI impact the economy in broad terms? New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). A faster pace of adoption.

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GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures. It’s not.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

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. Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. Even when large U.S.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

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. Apply world-class management.

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Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The global economy and the Internet have heightened our sense of interconnectedness and sharpened our awareness that when a business focuses only on enriching investors, it implies that managers view the interests of customers, employees, communities and the fate of the planet as little more than cost trade-offs in a quarter-by-quarter game.

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The case for embracing the maximization of long-term shareholder value as the governing objective for publicly traded companies has been persuasively argued many times. Michael Mauboussin of Legg Mason Capital Management, Dominic Barton of McKinsey, and Charles Elson of the University of Delaware have addressed the topic in this forum.

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Short-term Long-term Incentives Objective 12

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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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. McKinsey, Bain, or Boston Consulting Group). Work on discrete projects. Exceed client expectations.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Reimagining capitalism for a new age and a new set of challenges is a sweeping undertaking. It's not enough to change one company.

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Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. Since 2008, we've benchmarked the performance of nearly 250 operations centers working on both core operations (e.g., But that's not by accident.

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Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. We’ve enlisted prominent thinkers and leading CEOs who understand that sustainable business practices are in a company’s long-term interests.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management. Is there an adequate return on investment over the long term to justify moving forward? And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics.

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Execution Incentives How To Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. And maybe it’ll attract consumers who care about sustainability.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Go that extra mile when customers least expect it, and in return you will receive their long-term business. For example, one Middle Eastern telecom operator has begun to create the brand connection by extending extraordinary discounts from third party partners, such as theaters and car rental agencies.

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Brand McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Our research into firms that have succeeded in Africa highlights two essential requirements: the imagination to see the continent’s unmet needs as opportunities for growth, and the long-term commitment to build businesses of meaningful scale. Further Reading. Strategy & Execution BOOK.

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Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Just a few weeks ago Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co. The M-Prize's overall goal is to "surface the world's most progressive management practices and most provocative management ideas" and connect and celebrate individuals reinventing management. Portfolio management. Parallel disciplines.

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

In the late 1990s, Steven Hankin of McKinsey provoked a lot of discussion when he coined the phrase “the war for talent.” Further, we have appointed an advisory council consisting of eminent professors and practitioners from the continent who can help identify mutual needs and ensure long-term talent development.

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