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Eric Jacobson

All four authors are partners or senior partners at McKinsey & Company. Dahlstrom , based in London, is the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team. Hjartar is global leader of McKinsey Digital in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors and in Western Europe. He is based in Paris.

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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. Dahlstrom , based in London, is the global leader for McKinsey Digital’s B2C team. Hjartar is global leader of McKinsey Digital in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors and in Western Europe. He is based in Paris.

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Building Partnerships

Marshall Goldsmith

At the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, a Director may often have less detailed knowledge about a client than a more junior partner. The same trend is occurring in pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Many leaders will be operating more like the managing director of a consulting firm.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

Essentially McKinsey’s research for the book found that 30% of corporate earnings are at stake from effective connection with these external stakeholders. John Browne : When it comes to relationships with external stakeholders, research conducted by McKinsey shows that on average, 30 percent of a company’s value is at stake.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

The Dutch telecommunications company KPN implemented social media to strengthen employees' connections to others, but the technologies have taken on a life of their own, creating unexpected benefits in surprising places. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that this change alone can improve employee productivity by up to 25%.

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Data Monopolists Like Google Are Threatening the Economy

Harvard Business Review

The Federal Trade Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administration have also expressed concerns about consumer privacy, as have PwC and the Wall Street Journal. McKinsey calculates that in 15 out of 17 sectors in the U.S. The White House recently released a report about the danger of big data in our lives.

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Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination

Harvard Business Review

According to a McKinsey & Company study India’s biggest barriers to internet adoption are primarily in the areas of internet access capabilities and awareness of the internet itself. Only 19.2% Meanwhile, China’s e-commerce market is 80 times as large.