Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

CEO 83

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 83

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2016 that you might have missed: Max DePree: North America’s First CEO Design Thinker by Michael Graber @southerngrowth. The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make : From Team Member to First-Time Manager by @JesseLynStoner. How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey.

Servant Leader 150

Servant Leader McKinsey Strategic Planning Open-book 150

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. Most organizations reward employees for their ability to manage. The problem? Why is that?

Innovation 227

Innovation Team How To Uncertainty 227

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2023

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

MAY 27, 2022

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Today, they’re a leader in their new field, but the CEO says they would never have gotten there if they had followed their first instincts. The CEO got out front and immediately apologized for the offense. Another CEO we know makes failure part of the review process, asking executives to describe recent failures.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov [.].

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Govindarajan Blog McKinsey Bond 75

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Books 65

Eric Jacobson

MAY 3, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate McKinsey Open-book Mentor 65

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. The need for collaboration is driven by the issues arising from the current economic crisis and supported by the opportunities afforded by advances in technology, specifically Web 2.0. It doesn’t matter what your role is.

Competitive Advantage 282

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Creativity Diversity 282

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Authority on new technology and communication.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

John Stoker of DialogueWORKS contributed Managers, here’s your guide to effective feedback. Eileen explains: “Human language separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but too often, we respond to the wag of a dog’s tail instead of the message given by the CEO. Communication. ’ Will it be you? Will it be me?”

Leadership Development 238

Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 238

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. Consulting giant McKinsey recently argued that the talk about Asian economic hegemony has been largely underestimated. Digital dominance.

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2011

Mendonca and featured by McKinzey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly (November 2007). Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T.

McKinsey 80

McKinsey Strategic Planning Planning Strategy 80

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 [.].

Crisis 80

Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent. 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.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. 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.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." See the Proposed Challenges for examples.). Proposed Challenges.

Innovation 8

Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

A recent survey by Deloitte of “aggressive adopters” of cognitive technologies found that 76% believe that they will “substantially transform” their companies within the next three years. There probably hasn’t been this much excitement about a new technology since the dotcom boom years in the late 1990s.

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Project How To Technology ROI 9

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. billion to $3.4

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Or, sometimes related, they have a new CEO with a mandate to shake things up and make her mark.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Research by McKinsey & Company and the McKinsey Global Institute shows that digitization is having the same radical impact.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

McKinsey research suggests that the most effective directors are meeting these challenges by spending twice as many days a year on board activities as other directors do. We recently discussed some of these tensions with board members and executives at Prium, a New York-based forum for CEOs (in which McKinsey participates).

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Manu Chandaria, CEO of Comcrat, the multibillion-dollar Kenyan steel, plastics, and aluminum company, is a longtime observer of the African business landscape. I used to have a lot of conflicts with my older brother about managing our businesses,” he says. “I Conjuring Up the Perfect Team (McKinsey Quarterly). Is that all?

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Retail Politics Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. I once asked former Intel CEO Andy Grove for advice on whether or not I should accept a board appointment.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. What automation is possible? around its introduction.”

Govindarajan 74

Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Identify and stratify patients by disease severity to manage population health. Brandon Carrus, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10