First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Peter Bisson, Elizabeth Stephenson, and S. Patrick Viguerie for The McKinsey Quarterly.

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Stephenson Productivity Products McKinsey 85

Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2018

via @McKinsey. Your company succeeds not with just a hit product, but because the whole organization of people stay for a multi-decade period of time to achieve the mission. Global Leadership Forecast 2018 via @DDIworld. Will artificial intelligence make you a better leader? Keep The Degree Of Difficulty Down by @FredWilson @AVC.

Emotional Intelligence 162

Emotional Intelligence McKinsey Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 162

The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2024

The Training and Development section of our website has over 100 blogs, articles, and book excerpts on this topic that’s been at the center of my career. Most Training Programs Are Useless Decades of studies have shown that a vast majority of training programs have little to no lasting effect.

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Training Development 360-Degree Feedback Human Resources 116

Women on Business

JULY 13, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Having a diverse workforce not only benefits company innovation and productivity but it also benefits the economy. ” Read the Full Article: The Top 10 Economic Facts of Diversity in the Workplace via www.americanprogress.org.

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Diversity GDP Human Capital McKinsey 216

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 9, 2020

That’s the question headlining a recent article in Harvard Business Review. ” A study co-authored by Disney Institute and McKinsey & Company reports that “companies offering an exceptional customer experience can exceed their peers’ gross margin by more than 26 percent.

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McKinsey Human Resources Insurance Cost 124

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. This article and video offers actionable strategies for working with others during these stressful times.” Motivation & Productivity.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 238

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Leadership development efforts are not aligned with strategic goals and leadership development programs are oriented around commercial products that have limited relevance to actual needs or an organization. Views from a McKinsey article titled “ Why leadership-development programs fail ” concur with the reasons stated above.

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Training Development McKinsey Long-term 169

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

This podcast offers invaluable insights into fostering employee engagement, well-being, and productivity, making it a vital resource for modern leaders who understand that caring for people is the key to organizational excellence. CEO School Essential for women seeking guidance and inspiration on their leadership journey to the top.

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Emotional Intelligence Blanchard Leadership McKinsey 52

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 31, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article now available at the website of The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They include three exhibits: Exhibit 1: Among practices that influence a lab’s productivity, talent is the one most correlated with high [.].

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Talent Management McKinsey Simon Management 80

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

Indeed, as Martin Weitzman argued in a celebrated paper from 1998, recombination is not only the bedrock of knowledge production, but takes its cue from the kind of work Gregor Mendel famously did when he mixed and matched peas to uncover the power of genetics.

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Diversity Entrepreneur Innovation Gordon 136

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

Great for in-depth, research-based articles on leadership and workplace trends. Its Workplace Insights blog serves up frequent articles on leadership and workplace trends, backed up by their own analytics. The McKinsey Podcast. Great for business and management insights from leading experts at McKinsey. Deloitte Insights.

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Blog Leadership McKinsey Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

New research from McKinsey finds they have four strategies in common.

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McKinsey Productivity Products Company 22

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. In the classic HBR article “ What Makes a Leader? McKinsey & Company. Emotionally intelligent leaders raise revenue margins. 2 Stein S, Book H.

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Emotional Intelligence Training Goleman McKinsey 98

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. 2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 18, 2009 at 6:40 am said: Thanks for the mention! Thanks a million!

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Rogers McKinsey Leadership Taylorism 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 25, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport for The McKinsey Quarterly, featured online by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article and [.].

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McKinsey Article Organization Company 80

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

A recent report by McKinsey and Co. In this month’s Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Purpose of your Purpose?”, found the pandemic has caused half of employees surveyed to consider leaving their current job. The Big Resignation is a big pain point for many organizations.

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Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

These relationships affect a lot of different factors, from employee satisfaction to their productivity within the workplace. An article by Greg Roper from 2015 indicated that interpersonal communication and conflict management were two of the most important skills to focus on, and that remains relevant today.

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Schein Industry Long-term Automotive 98

Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

It is a practical guide to how AI and Machine Learning are impacting not only how businesses, brands, and agencies innovate, but also what they innovate: products, services and content. In this world of product and pricing parity, the delivery of superior service experience has become the new marketing, and the new real competitive edge.

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Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 94

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2011).

Information 93

Information McKinsey Creativity Article 93

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. Note: This article first appeared in . In the last 40 years of the 20 th century, strategy was the champion of business supremacy.

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Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win Steven Gary Blank Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st [.].

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Govindarajan Blog Rogers McKinsey 80

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you are in any doubt that collaborative leadership is an imperative, and not just a fad, take a look at any of the 22 articles in the Harvard Business Review series on collaboration. Click on the diagram to see the full McKinsey Report: Mapping the Value of Employee Collaboration. It will be one the best 10 minutes you spent.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Creativity Diversity 282

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The progress of technology and productivity has been a boon in many ways but it has also led to the possible creation of jobs at such an accelerated rate that the population just can’t keep up. McKinsey found that 40 percent of their survey respondents were leaving jobs due to a lack of growth opportunities in their careers.

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Participative Uncertainty Long-term Trends 52

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. Christy Pambianchi, CHRO at Verizon (NYSE: VZ) : With more than $130 Billion in revenue and more than 140,000 employees worldwide, Christy leads a category dominant company with an ever-expanding portfolio of product and service offerings. Affiliates.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 469

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Overcome orthodoxies.

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

According to the McKinsey article " Brilliant Strategy, But Can You Execute? ", there were two basic kinds of strategies: transformational and operational. For the operational strategy, a company must focus doggedly on conventional measures like capacity utilization or throughput, and on such basics as customer service.

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Operations Strategy Core Competence McKinsey 98

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. And as usual, the illustrations come from new product development and business strategy. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Overcome orthodoxies.

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

” A McKinsey study of 500 organizations found, “more than 70 percent of failures are driven by what we would categorize as poor organizational health… taking deliberate steps to move the needle on the soft stuff is a vital element in organizational transformations, though it’s often overlooked.”

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Planning Strategic Planning How To Operations 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. Useem's articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune , Fast Company, Financial Times , Fortune , Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, New York Times , U.S.

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Leadership McKinsey Sample Download 129

Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

While industry leaders need to build collaborative relationships with their peers to fulfill key business objectives such as launching a product, Army leaders must do the same when executing key mission objectives such as coalition-based peacekeeping. Change management. These results make sense.

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Benchmarking Leadership Bottom-up Leadership Pipeline 57

Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Consider leaving a comment!

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Bond Participative McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 50

CO2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In a McKinsey survey , 70% of respondents cited work as a defining factor in their sense of purpose—with 63% saying they would like more opportunities to live out that purpose in their day-to-day work. People who believe in your purpose are more likely to be engaged, productive, and happy—and, in turn, generate better results for you.

How To 78

How To Long-term Performance Review Mission Statement 78

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

The Lean Startup movement encourages a Minimal Viable Product (MCP), building what’s critical and leaving the non-critical for a later. Technology does not do much in a complex interaction (per McKinsey´s articles on interaction). So we need to understand customers’ needs and how well we can meet those.

Efficiency 132

Efficiency Energy Senge Resources 132

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

McKinsey has a new study out on an important topic — the question of whether corporations systematically take too short a view and do not invest enough for the long term. I was therefore excited to see that McKinsey had a new empirical study that provides evidence in favor of the view that corporations should take longer views.

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McKinsey Short-term Long-term Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. When I later became head of McKinsey Asia, he helped me see that I had to hire a solid COO to work with me—which substantially increased my leadership effectiveness in that bigger role.”

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15