Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of managers and their roles. Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, but the future demands it.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

After all, reaching the pinnacle of one’s career, achieving a lifelong goal, or mastering a skill provides a sense of completion. A McKinsey report highlights that leaders who engage in ongoing personal development are 1.5 It’s a continuous journey of growth, learning, and transformation.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2024

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. 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. ” 2.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 30, 2023

A global survey of nurses undertaken by the consultancy firm McKinsey in the summer of 2022 highlighted the perilous state of the sector. Now we need to replicate that to ensure men feel that nursing is a career for them. Seldom has the state of the NHS workforce been more in the public consciousness.

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

We’ve also learned that one in two employees have left a job to get away from a manager and improve their overall life at some point in their career. The McKinsey group recently published an excellent resource regarding attrition and the reasons why people leave organisations. Environments like that can make anyone miserable.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Badaracco Kai Hammerich Madeleine Albright Maximize Your Potential McKinsey & Company McKinsey Global Institute Meredith Maran Novelis Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information Phil Martens Richard D.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

Young women today are entering the workforce better prepared and more ambitious than ever, with more education and higher career aspirations than men. When McKinsey & Co. The McKinsey study shows women in general opt at far higher rates than men for staff jobs, sometimes labeled "the pink ghetto." Rethinking Leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 19, 2011

o Enhance their ability As job security has decreased - and global competition has increased - the need to update and refine skills continually has become critical in maintaining professional careers. A role model for providing positive networking is strategy consulting firm McKinsey. is a very common response!

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. Reskilling refers to learning new skills for a job switch or career pivot. With creativity’s ties to innovation and the global economy experiencing a significant growth mode, this personal ability was transferable across a range of organizational needs.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 31, 2015

She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils, a judge for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and […]. Herminia Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Coined by Texas A&M University Associate Professor Anthony Klotz in a Bloomberg Businessweek article in 2021, the term “ Great Resignation ” sounds rather grand for the consequences we’ve seen globally since then.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2012

With all due respect to Jack Welch , the facts tell a different story: According to 20-First’s 3rd Annual Global Gender Scorecard , 90% of Executive Committee positions are still filled by men, with only 10% by women. We'll be looking for accomplished woman leaders with a track record of success, that are looking to advance their careers.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The role of employee relations is to ensure that employee interests are kept in mind in all of the company’s overarching goals, despite the external industry struggles or changing global conditions. Feedback Sharing A McKinsey survey of 12,000 managers found that managers believed “candid, insightful feedback” to be crucial to career growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

When thinking about how to develop in our careers, most of us tend to focus on promotions, projects, courses, certifications. Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI /Getty Images.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 21, 2012

information about work and jobs is relatively hard to come by for someone seeking employment,” says James Manyika, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute. Apparently not. “We We find that in the U.S.,

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Armed Forces look for employment after their military careers, many industries don’t immediately recognize the great potential that leaders from the U.S. In short, the data showed that “leaders are leaders,” regardless of the industry they work in. But as veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces can bring to their organizations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation. World Economic Forum – Global Leader for Tomorrow. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

For many women, returning to work after parental leave is a key career transition point. Many were household names and leading global players in their sectors. Check your assumptions about new parents’ career and family priorities. All of these organizations were large employers with relatively sophisticated HR systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Similar dynamics can be found in India, Brazil , and other emerging markets, with the growing need for global business acumen just as acute in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Certainly, there are opportunities within organizations to expand global skills. Find environments that encourage global development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Over the past year we have been writing the HBR Leader’s Handbook — a primer for aspiring leaders who want to take their careers to the next level. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 The result is likely to be intensified global competition for talent. Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

We probe visiting dignitaries, testing resolutions to global conflicts as if they could be solved Right There in the lecture hall. A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

We probe visiting dignitaries, testing resolutions to global conflicts as if they could be solved Right There in the lecture hall. A California native, she will move to New York to work for McKinsey & Company and plans to pursue a career in public service.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Thought-provoking reading for anyone who has ever ridden in a car, used a plastic bag, or felt conflicted about their own career path. Social Media's Untapped Productivity Payoff (McKinsey Global Institute). Or in microns with something modern and electronic — and probably powered by coal or gas or oil." It’s 9:00am.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

This is the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation and a call for inspiring stories, bold ideas, and instructive experiments that demonstrate what can happen when you scrap compliance, conformance and predictability for freedom, passion, and dynamism. That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. PwC, meanwhile, calculated the economic cost of large global companies getting their most important C-suite appointment – CEO – wrong: well over $100 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Selling needs to be a part of every woman's career tool kit. According to McKinsey & Company , research of the largest US corporations shows that 62% of women are in staff jobs — positions that provide service and assistance but don't directly generate revenue. And that is where women are at a disadvantage.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Dominic Barton , global managing director of consulting firm McKinsey & Company, reminds us of this in an interview with The Wharton School. I’ve not heard a single leader not say this [among] those that are toward the end of their career.” We get caught up in the tasks, but it’s the people that leaders need to focus on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Generation , a 3-year old non-profit created by McKinsey, uses a bootcamp model to train and place underserved youth in careers in over 63 cities and across 20 professions. So now we need to retrain workers mid-career. Increasing access to job retraining programs for adults.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. It’s typical for new employees to initially place most of their focus on the relationships with their direct manager and those they manage, but others across the organization can be just as critical in influencing your career.

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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.” A few years ago, we invited a group of early career high-performers to advise the company on how best to factor their specific needs into GE leadership processes. Our leaders take this seriously.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. Some 20% to 30% of American and European Union workers are independent, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. Independent contractors have become ubiquitous.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

More than half (51%) of corporate HR respondents said their need for contingent workers will keep growing over the next three to five years, according to the Deloitte Consulting’s Global Human Capital Trends 2015 study. trillion, or 2%, to global GDP and increase employment by 72 million full-time-equivalent positions by 2025.

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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. Take water scarcity. And all three sectors have skin in the game. Prepared mind.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that means providing world-class training, clear and lucrative career paths and, increasingly, a work-life balance that allows people to enjoy the fruits of their success. The days when Goldman Sachs and McKinsey threw piles of money at overseas-educated returnees are long gone. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

and the EU15 is doing some type of independent work, according to the McKinsey Global Institute , and 42% of U.S. While one-quarter of contractors in our sample did have more than 16 years of experience, 31% had been in their careers for four years or fewer, and 27% for five to nine years.

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